What is Trump’s plan to contain China in the Indo-Pacific region?

Mehr News, International Group: Return Trump has had big winners and losers in the field of foreign policy. While India, Turkey, the Zionist regime, and Saudi Arabia are happy with Trump’s re-establishment of power, some actors in the international arena, such as China, observe the current developments in Washington with a pessimistic eye. In the first term of his presidency, Trump caused a lot of damage to the export sector of Chinese products and goods to America by launching the “tariff war” campaign, and at the same time, he tried to limit his competitor’s access to new technologies by imposing new laws. /p>

Tariff War

The foundations of the trade war between Washington and Beijing were laid at the end of the presidency of Barack Obama, but the peak period of the implementation of this policy was during the presidency of Donald Trump and after It was Joe Biden. In this strategy, the US, aware of the interdependence of the Washington-Beijing economy, but with open eyes, has decided to reduce the amount of Chinese access to American markets in favor of local businesses at the cost of economic loss.

Despite the high profits of American investment in China, recent American governments have consciously decided to prevent the transfer of capital to this Asian power with lower profits. The scope of America’s anti-China measures has also been extended to the activities of companies and big brands of this emerging power, such as “Huawei” and “Tik Tok”. For example, one of the missions of the Biden government was to prevent the implementation of “5G” development projects in European countries. Also, by appointing “Tik Tok” company to the Communist Party of China, the Congress representatives tried to ban this company’s license to operate in the United States.

During the “trade war” between the US and China, the Yankees imposed an 18% tariff on 2.6% of China’s GDP, and on the opposite side of Beijing By imposing an 11% tariff, 3.6% of the GDP was involved in this economic war. With Trump’s return to power, the Chinese announced the allocation of a 1.4 trillion dollar financial package to their local governments with the aim of countering the Republican trade war.

The adoption of such a decision by Beijing shows their high readiness to deal with possible threats from the White House. In this economic war, Iran, as one of the three main suppliers of Chinese oil, can have more acting power among the power blocs. At the same time, radical elements in Trump’s cabinet, such as Rabiot and Waltz, will try to target Iran’s oil transfer based on the guidelines proposed by the Arterial Democracy Defense Foundation and in this way try to force Tehran to change its behavior.

Activation of geopolitical faults

Donald Trump’s selection of figures such as Marco Rabiot and Mike Waltz has raised concerns among Chinese and even Taiwanese officials that Washington may intend to It has enabled geopolitical faults in the South China Sea. Although in the first term of Trump’s presidency, the main focus of the Americans was on the “trade war” and the increase in the cost of trade with this Asian country, but it seems that the second term of Trump’s presidency has a serious risk of activating geopolitical faults in the peripheral environment of China and the Indo-Pacific region. be.

Camp David security agreement between the US and South Korea-Japan, intensifying defense cooperation with Taiwan, concluding the Akos nuclear agreement with Australia and finally becoming India and the UAE America’s main defense partner in the North Indian Ocean region has shown the groundwork of Washington during the Democratic era to take action against China in the near future. In order to limit and then expel China from the global economy, the Biden government needs an excuse in the geopolitical field and the escalation of tension in Southeast Asia.

Alternative for “One Belt One Road”

The most important idea of ​​the Chinese to export surplus capital outside the motherland and create deep political-security-economic links with the countries of the “south and north of the world” is the “one A belt is a road. This communication route in two main branches “land” and “sea” is intended to meet the needs of European and African markets by passing through the continent of Asia. To achieve this goal, Beijing has invested in many partner countries such as Pakistan, Iran, the United Arab Emirates, etc., in order to create the communication and logistics infrastructure necessary to transfer Chinese goods to consumer markets.

Washington to deal with this Chinese super plan, which will be the introduction of Beijing’s “ordering” in the international system, in the first step of the “I2U2” food security corridor with the presence He unveiled the UAE, America, India and the Zionist regime, and in the second step, he unveiled the corridor “India-Middle East-Europe” or “IMAC”. These alternative routes have the mission to create a more attractive alternative for the countries of the Indo-Pacific region, to distance governments from China and to reduce the importance of their plans in the medium term.

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The final winner of the new Cold War can determine the order and future of the international system for decades to come. By redefining relations with traditional allies, imposing sanctions and trade tariffs, activating geopolitical faults and trying to return American capital to the motherland, America is trying to stop the process of transferring power from the West to the East. In the national security document of the country, former US President Joe Biden referred to the current decade as a decisive decade in which the future of the world order will be determined. Now we have to wait and see what policy Trump and his radical foreign policy team will adopt towards America’s most important competitor, China.