Trump in China: The Art of the Grovel

The Mirror by Christopher Bucktin

Yesterday, the self-declared heir to Caesar, Napoleon and Alexander the Great stood in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, watched children wave flags in his honour and proceeded to deliver what can only be described as the most elaborate display of public fawning by an American president since, well, ever.

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This is the man who spent the better part of a decade telling American workers that China was their greatest enemy. Who launched a trade war that rattled the global economy and cost American businesses billions. Who described Chinese leaders as cunning adversaries who had been making fools of weak American presidents for decades.

He then flew to Beijing to tell one of those leaders that he was great, that their relationship was an honour, that the top 30 businessmen in the world had come specifically to pay their respects to him and to China, as though Elon Musk and Tim Cook had booked flights to Beijing to perform a corporate kowtow on behalf of the American republic.

The strongman who was going to stare down the world had, in the space of one opening statement, turned into the diplomatic equivalent of a Labrador puppy shown a new garden.

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