Wednesday, June 05, 2019

OPINION_ James Carafano: China's Trump troubles -- Xi discovers that president is not putty in his hands

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James Carafano: China's Trump troubles -- Xi discovers that president is not putty in his hands

OPINION - By James Jay Carafano | Fox News




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Apparently, Chinese Defense Minister General Wei Fenghe never read James Hilton’s 1933 novel or saw the movie about the mythical Shangri-La.

His speech at this week’s Shangri-La Dialogue security summit in Singapore would have been jarringly out of place in Hilton’s utopian land of peace and tranquility nestled in the Tibetan highlands.

Wei’s words for the United States were anything but serene. “A fight?” he declared, “Ready. Bully us? No way.”


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The unusually bellicose barrage from a senior Chinese official at a stately global forum was a bit of an eyebrow raiser, but not really much to worry about. In fact, it is yet another sign of how much Trump has flummoxed and confounded the boys from Beijing.

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This is an almost comical attempt at cowing Trump, who is arguably the world champion of good cop-bad cop diplomacy. And while Minister Wei blustered and puffed at the Singapore dialogue, U.S. officials were touting plans for a free and open Indo-Pacific, which sounds a lot friendlier than a world where everybody is a suburb of Beijing.

China now knows that Mar-a-Lago was no Shangri-La and that dealing with Trump is not all champagne and smiles.

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