Before my arrival in this city, I believed that China would panic for the president’s tariffs Donald Trump, against the main business partners of USA. However, I found a very different reality from that lived in Mexico and other countries most affected by Trump’s commercial wars.
There is a very expanded belief here that China It can be the great winner of the tariffs of Trump Against the commercial partners of USA. Although no one in China is celebrating the tariffs of Trump Against this country, many believe that President’s measures Trump Against Europe, Mexico, Canada and other historical allies in the United States, along with the mass cuts in Washington’s foreign aid, they are destroying the international prestige of the United States. This allows China Presenting to the world as the only responsible superpower, they tell me diplomats in this city.
One of the reasons why China It is not panic is that, unlike Mexico, which depends on the market United States For 83% of its exports, China sells only 16% of its exports to the United States.
Chinese officials take care not to give the impression of celebrating the measures of Trump. However, the official newspaper of the Communist Party, “The China Daily”, celebrates them indirectly publishing articles that cite European, Latin American and African officials, saying that China He will be the main winner of the replication of USA In the global stage.
A column of March 18 in the “China Daily”, written by the expert in China William Hurst points out that the era in which Europe depended totally on the United States for defense is quickly coming to an end, which “creates opportunities for China interact with European powers in more favorable terms for your interests. ”
The drastic cuts of Trump to the help of USA Latin America and Africa are also seen here as a great opportunity to increase China’s influence. Chinese officials emphasize almost daily China It will continue and possibly increase its development assistance to some 150 countries within the framework of its Strip and the Route initiative.
In Latin America, the main American aid receptors that will probably be affected by Trump’s cuts are the countries of Central America and the Caribbean, Colombia and Haiti. Much of that help is intended to combat the background causes of migration and drug trafficking.
Another of the amazing decisions of Trump That more will affect the outer influence of the United States will be the dismantling of the voice of America, Radio Europa Libre and Radio Martí to Cuba, as well as the cuts of funds to groups that promote democracy and freedom of expression in dictatorships such as Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua.
“This is crazy. It is a unilateral disarmament,” wrote Michael McFaul, former United States ex -embassy in Russia, in his social media account. “China will not close CGTN. Russia will not close RT, the theocrats of Iran and their allies in the Middle East will not close their media operations.”
McFaul added that, while Trump closes the most powerful tools of USA To spread the values of the West, “China advances to gain support worldwide.”
The great irony of the presidency of Trump It is that the president, who most insists on portraying surrounded by American flags and that he claims to be making “the United States again”, being promoting the greatest fall in the external influence of USA of history. Whom Chinathey see it as a gift from heaven.
–Glossado and edited–
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