What Does Donald Trump’s Election Mean to Asia?

Fair Trade and American First Policies

The United States and China on January 15, 2020 signed an historic and enforceable agreement on a Phase One trade deal. The agreement requires structural reforms and other changes to China’s economic and trade regime. Chapters with Key Achievements include: Intellectual Property, Technology Transfer, Agriculture, Financial Services and Expanding Trade.

This writer is still in Asia after two years on a tourist visa but made a great effort to vote absentee for Donald Trump for president of USA. Trump is a great Capitalist who last left office as the most successful president in modern times in 2020, with Trade Sanctions managing China access to US markets, Iran financially destitute, Russia restraining from invasion of its neighbors, and North Korea on speaking terms.

Over several decades China had become a world economic force because of American willingness to tolerate unfair trade practices and abiding Most Favored Nation trading status first given to China by USA in 2000, upon allowing China to join the disastrous World Trade Organization (WTO) seeking globalization and diminishment of USA.

Trump won election in a landslide. Now Sheriff Trump is back in town.