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President Xi to meet with T-rump in Florida marsh?

by DLi
On Friday, Chinese President Xi Jinping is scheduled to meet with U.S. White House Occupier at his Mar-a-Lago "Resort." While China is the world's 2nd largest economy and props up the financial deadbeat of a faltering US economy, the White House actually gave a warmer welcome to Egyptian dictator el Sisi(a military coup leader whose forces killed more than 1,000 civilian demonstrators in 2013). How's that for a US diplomatic snub to the leader of a nation that holds more than $1 Trillion worth of US Treasury bonds?
Worse than that, T-rump also poisoned the upcoming meeting's atmosphere by an interview that charged, "If China cannot solve the North Korean problem, the US will take unilateral action," implying that Washington will use military force on Pyongyang. It's a good thing that President Xi has strategic patience, even though he recognizes that the Yankee Imperial instinct prevents the US from a peaceful transition to the reality of a multi-polar world. Xi and the Chinese leadership have the longer historical view, for they know the fast-declining USA empire--aka the self-proclaimed "sole Superpower"--is already losing the economic battle. The Clunkered USA Capitalist economic Calamity continues to "recover" at a snail's pace of less than 2% annual GDP "growth," despite having nearly a decade of trillions of dollars of taxpayers' Bailout and near 0% loans from the Fed(both unprecedented subsidies to the top 1/10 of 1% of America's Private Capitalist robber barons)...

However, the Corporate-bin-Laden media will focus on T-rump's aggressive push to get China on board to strangle the DPRK, but it has virtually censored any coverage of Beijing's practical proposal to get North Korea to stop its missile development if the US calls off its bellicose war games and seriously negotiate a formal treaty to end the 60-year-old Korean War(a proposal that Washington rejected outright!)

History will show the petulant T-rump will rant and rave, but he won't get his way with the more diplomatic and calculating Xi. After all, China's long-term "Belt and Road" initiative is already winning allies and partners across Asia, Africa and Europe, while the crumbling Yank economic jalopy is mired in its isolationist quicksand around the Mar-a-Lago bog?
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