Comments by "LRRPFco52" (@LRRPFco52) on "China Cancels Summit with EU's Foreign Affairs Minister Borrell || Peter Zeihan" video.

@ezekielbrockmann114 That was American trade policy before Trump. During Trump's WH, he dictated the terms of trade and showed that it could be done for the first time in generations. US was accustomed to letting other nations have what they wanted under Bretton Woods, as long as they traded with US and cut out the Soviets. Everyone took advantage of that and stacked trade deals in their favor until the US had exported a ton of its heavy industries, manufacturing, and jobs. People got sick of this and were frustrated at losing their jobs, especially in the Rust Belt, and wondered why their parties and politicians had sold them out. Trump came along and promised to renegotiate all the US foreign trade deals in favor of US workers with only concern for the US #1. He delivered on that promise and showed the spineless hacks on DC how it could be done, and now it's solidified as US foreign policy even under sell-out traitor Biden.
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He has described the US negotiations as very unilateral where we have all the leverage to sit down at the table, lay out our terms for the deal, let the other side squawk for a while, then ask if they're ready to sign our terms, which they have to. This is a function of US general disinterest in the world and strategic withdrawal from Europe, Asia, and ME and having the biggest economy with the most technology, heavy industries, and weapons to offer to foreign nations who only have raw materials or minimal value added exports.
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@jamesw1659 85% of China's energy comes from the Persian Gulf by ship. They import food from us in substantial quantities as well. These are not the metrics of a rising rival, while we produce our own food and energy.
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His analyses on Belt & Road when he was at STRATFOR were very funny, especially as he debated it with Robert Kaplan. Peter pointed out the costs associated with overland travel through the most warlord-infested regions of the planet, where Iran and Saudi Arabia will cooperate to let goods flow from China to the ME, Europe, and Africa, while the normal shipping routes are a dramatically-cheaper standard option for everyone else.
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@jamesw1659 US is the biggest economy in the world without peer, and only 15% of our GDP is from exports. Our 2 biggest trade partners are Canada and Mexico. There isn’t much we actually need from other nations afar off, since we have the biggest arable farmland with the longest growing seasons of anywhere on earth due to it being in a temperate zone with double mountain range rain shadows. We innovate and develop the latest technologies which are highly-sought after by everyone else. We also have the most powerful military with the most weapons systems that are also superior to all others in their respective classes. We’re also largely energy-independent, until pedo Pete came along and shut down multiple drilling operations.
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