Reducing America to a legend in Trump’s mind
As the U.S. regresses under the misleadership of Donald Trump amd Project 2025 architects, the world — and China — marches on.
Headline this morning at CNN: China’s Xi rolls out the red carpet for Putin and Modi as Trump upends global relations
Autocrats, populists, friends and foes, a strongman waging a war in Europe and the leader of the world’s biggest democracy will all be hosted by Chinese leader Xi Jinping this weekend at a summit designed to showcase Beijing as a global leader capable of providing a counterweight to Western institutions.
Heads of state and delegations from across Asia and the Middle East will meet from Sunday in the Chinese port city of Tianjin for the two-day summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), a regional security grouping that has emerged as a cornerstone of Xi and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s drive to rebalance global power in their favor.
Trump’s upending global trade with his tariff war cast ripples across this meeting.
Chinese officials have billed the summit as the SCO’s largest yet, with the diplomacy and pageantry setting the stage for Xi to tout his country as a stable and powerful alternative leader at a time when the world’s leading superpower the United States under President Donald Trump is shaking up its alliances and waging a global trade war.
The gathering also comes days ahead of a major military parade in Beijing that will offer a different message – that of China’s rapidly developing military might, and draw autocrats like North Korea’s Kim Jong Un and Myanmar’s Min Aung Hlaing alongside Putin and Russia-friendly European leaders Aleksandar Vucic of Serbia and Slovakia’s Robert Fico.
France 24 offers a 5 min. video that suggests the presence of Putin, Xi and Kim Jong Un together for the first time represents an “axis of upheaval” that challenges the U.S.-led western order.
Yes, but look at all the gold-painted crap in the Oval Office.
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