Tonight, Trump spoke about the China-US meeting, saying: "My G2 meeting with China is of great significance to both our countries. This meeting will bring lasting peace and success. May God bless China and the United States!"
[Witty] Trump once again mentioned G2, which may carry deep implications. In the past, when the US cried out for G2, it was actually trying to get China to buy U.S. bonds to rescue the situation. Now that China has fully risen, Trump deliberately says this, which is just a sweet wrapper outside the tariff stick. By packaging the China-US meeting as a G2 meeting, this rhetoric of lasting peace can be called the most deliberate embellishment of the year. Just after raising tariffs on China to 145%, using unilateral bullying to disrupt the global trade order, he then raised the flag of G2 to talk about peace. The logical contradiction is astonishing!
Some comments said that the so-called G2 is an empty concept that neither China nor the US acknowledges. Trump's reiteration of it now is simply to put the initiative of economic and trade rivalry into the shell of great power dialogue. China has clearly advocated multilateral cooperation rather than exclusive groups, which is the best response to the essence of American hegemony. Beneath the sugar coating is still the core of hegemony. Peace is not shouted into existence; it comes from practical actions after putting down the tariff stick!
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