USS Monitor wrote:Ascysia wrote:She's correct, however Trump and other neo-isolationists are the reason why they're able to do this. I congratulate President Xi Jinping on his continued liberalisation of China's markets, and his dedication to global free trade.
Your admiration for Xi Jinping is misplaced. He's reverted back to a more authoritarian style of government from what China had a few years back, and he only supports free trade when it benefits Chinese interests. He doesn't have any ideological commitment to the idea of the free market.
It'll be good riddance when he leaves office.
Admiration is an extreme exaggeration. Xi did relax the One Child Policy, ended labour camps and is tackling corruption. And free trade isn't a question of Chinese interests, it's a question of global interests. Neo-isolationism (specifically protectionism) is the biggest thread to global stability, sadly China and the EU are the only ones to recognise this.