Wan Chin: President Trump finally did it right. He postponed the time for first-round trade agreement with General Secretary Xi to time after next November, after the presidential election 2020.
A successful move, finally. As I summarized before in my fb post, Trump takes away Xi's US$ reserve and Xi retaliates by taking away Trump's time of his first term of office. That's all about the USA-China chess game. So simple and yet so risky.
The problem is: why Trump allow Xi to take away Trump's time? It's a matter of relative velocity in physics. And Trump made a big big mistake in dealing with Communist China. If Trump didn't re-think his tactics, he will end up reaping a poor and shattering China, which he tried with all means to avoid at the very beginning. Now comes the simple high school physics, just an analogy of course:
1. Trump used a strategy of accelerating and adding up the tariffs on imported goods from China. And Xi wastes Trump's time by raising fake retaliating tariffs and a fake war on human rights and rule of law in Hong Kong. Xi knows too well that Trump's acceleration has a limit because Trump wants to reap a still rich and peaceful China, not a China shattered. So when Trump slowed down with tariffs, Xi speeds up with his fake war in Hong Kong, urging USA to pass a human rights bill prematurely to steal Trump's time. Distractions and shadow boxing, aided by the US traitors in HK, the Pan-Democrats, which are co-nurtured by Clinton/Obama and the communists. You can't win a war when your delegate in Hong Kong are betraying you and spying on you, President Trump.
2. What mis-calculation has Trump made? I would say mistake, or even gross blunder. Trump should do it the other way round: he should have increased all tariffs rocket-high and given Xi a shock therapy and taken away Xi's US$ and reaction time altogether. He shouldn't have given Xi time to adjust to the slowly increasing tariffs over two years!
Experts in the White House and China-watchers in US think-tanks may not know this Taoist tactic: Seek life in death. Trump can only take China live by daring to push her to death. The Soviet empire was made dead by President Reagon's shock therapy and Star War scheme, not by the fine calculus of slowly increased tariffs.
Trump is a kind man. Xi will thank kind man Trump for saving Xi's office in exchange of Trump's.
(I will further explain this in my private salon talk this evening in Hong Kong.)
