China became more assertive under the Trump administration?

 https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/25/asia/biden-trump-china-preferred-candidate-hnk-intl/index.html

Trump was right on Russia and will be right with China. In 2018 at a NATO breakfast Trump made clear that he sees a difference between trade and being reliant on another country. This article even states that fears over “China have become decidedly more bipartisan in recent years” and that China would prefer a Biden President. Why? That question is what this “journalist” should want to find out.

This journalist’s observation of the how Chinese citizens view Trump does not really line up with the uprising we are seeing in China.

China became more assertive under the Trump administration? Wow that is hilarious. Look at the military operations and open threats that China has made that have not been addressed by the Biden administration. There was very little talk about China reunification policy.

The Biden administration and the Democrat majority congress did nothing to hold China accountable for the spread of the pandemic. At the time it seemed important to CNN that Trump hold China accountable. The Democrats have had two years to investigate, probe, find the origins and hold China accountable for covering “up the initial outbreak”

The end of this article is hilarious. Biden is the definition of an incompetent president. His quick cognitive decline is scary and he is a walking gaffe machine that the entire world laughs at daily!

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US President Donald Trump recently claimed that if his Democratic rival Joe Biden wins this November's presidential election, China will "own" the United States

Though concerns about China have become decidedly more bipartisan in recent years, there remains a view among many in Washington that Chinese leaders would prefer a President Biden come 2021.

On Chinese social media, Trump has been mockingly named "Chuan Jianguo," or "Build up the Country Trump," with online users positing that Trump is bolstering Chinese President Xi Jinping's regime by wrecking America. Although Trump has unleashed an onslaught of attacks on China in the form of tariffs, sanctions and bans, he has largely acted unilaterally, without the support of key allies.

During Trump's presidency, China has been given a window to be more assertive on the international stage. After Trump announced America's withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO), Xi said China would provide $2 billion over two years to help with the global pandemic response. China has pressed ahead with a national security law in Hong Kong, hardened its stance on self-governing Taiwan, which China views as an inseparable part of its territory, and continued to aggressively push its claims of sovereignty in the disputed waters of the South China Sea.

Though Biden only mentioned China once in his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention last week, he has repeatedly condemned Trump for being weak on

China. He's called Xi a "thug" and his campaign ads have claimed Trump hasn't held China accountable for the spread of the pandemic, amid suggestions Chinese officials covered up the initial outbreak.

When Trump first took o ce, he sang Xi's praises after they dined together at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. But that hasn't stopped him alternating between aiming threats at China and announcing that he and Xi "love each other."

Chinese state media has called Biden "smoother" to deal with, creating room to cooperate on major international issues like climate change and nuclear non-proliferation. Henry Wang, an adviser to China's cabinet and founder of the Center for Globalization, said that under a Biden administration, there would be more opportunities for dialogue.

Pei said the split in Chinese attitudes toward Trump and Biden depend on whether officials in Beijing are taking a short- or long-term view. Those who take a long-term view prefer Trump, since they view him as being incompetent and unable to get allies on board, thus giving China more room to maneuver. Another four years of Trump would lead to more internal divisions within America, reducing its ability to successfully wage a long-term struggle against China, Pei said.

"The Biden administration can devise a long-term strategy that is sustainable, that is multilateral with ally support, that will actually contain Chinese power, much more e ectively for the next two to three decades," Pei said.

Those focused on the near-term would prefer Biden, since he would put a pause in the rapidly deteriorating relations. "A Biden administration will most likely have a pause in what I call this demolition process, Pei said. "It's not in the US' fundamental interest to demolish the most important relationship in the world."