
Susan
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🇺🇸🇨🇳 Trump flew to Beijing holding all the cards. First U.S. presidential visit to China since 2017. Iran, trade, Taiwan all on the table. China offered to help with Iran negotiations. Trump left calling it a great trip. Hoover Institution scholar Victor Davis Hanson said the leverage was never in question. "All the data show that the cards are in Donald Trump's hands. He has all the cards in his hand, and they don't have any." Hanson's case: the U.S. controls its own energy, leads in AI, and has kept China out of the Western Hemisphere. China is shrinking demographically, hooked on foreign oil, and needs U.S. buyers to stay afloat. He's seen this before, the Soviet Union and Japan both looked unstoppable until they weren't. He puts China in that line. Taiwan stayed unresolved. Trump said he's not fighting a war 9,500 miles away. Hanson says that doesn't mean Taiwan is getting left behind. "They want stuff from us, and we don't need stuff from them." China called the meeting and asked for favors. That's Hanson's whole point. Source: Fox News
























