Opinion: Donald Trump helps Xi Jinping to achieve his great vision for China

Charles Burton is a former diplomat at the Canada Embassy in Beijing, principal researcher to Sinopsis.czA global reflection group focused on Prague based in Prague, and a member of the world's world index Committee based in Taiwan in the world.

It is difficult to remember, in the midst of all Washington news, that China was unhappy when Donald Trump won the American elections in November.

The economic war of his first presidency had not been forgotten in Beijing and after the day of the inauguration, things only worse. Trump has appointed China Hawk Marco Rubio as Secretary of State, repressed Chinese espionage, limited to exports of essential American tokens to the China technology sector and imposed restrictions on Chinese ownership of American agricultural land, resources, technological companies, ports and other infrastructures. Now the president wanted Chinese companies to sell assets deemed threatening the safety of the Americas.

So why was the response of Chinese governments relatively silent?

In 2012, Xi Jinping declared his Chinese dream: a vision of foreign policy realizing that the great renewal of the Chinese nation is the greatest dream of the Chinese nation in modern history. By 2050, China would dominate the world through a framework of international relations that Mr. XI surloes the community of common destiny for humanity. But achieving such a tectonic change, the United States would cease to be the guardian of global democracies and organizations such as NATO, the United Nations and the World Trade Organization, which promote justice and global prosperity.

Well, Mr. Trumps the aggressive abandonment of the Americas, long -standing alliances, do that exactly. And whatever the prices and everything that becomes Maga's plans for Panama, Gaza, Greenland or Canada, its abandonment of administrations of almost all soft power initiatives, financing for free radio from Asia, freezing of foreign aid leaves a vacuum that the media ecosystem and belt and belt initiatives and belt will fill up quickly.

This may be why Beijing has taken a relatively measured, even flattering tone to Washingtons activities. Beijing asked for a win-win solution for trade tensions, and the Chinese media managed by the State celebrated Mr. Trumps' financing reductions for Voice of America. Mr. XI was even invited to the inauguration of Mr. Trumps. It was only last month, in the midst of prices and reprisals, that Chinese rhetoric hardened.

And why not? Mr. Trumps Mercenary America First Doctrine abandoning the rest of the world to other powers of the spheres of influence, which will lead to millions of people in economic despair and the disease is a gift to Mr. XI. The era of American betrayal, contrasted by the smiling face of the folidations of Beijing, will tip the geostrategic balance in the favor of Chinese leaders.

Canada, on the other hand, has suddenly realized to what extent our complacent dependence on the United States as a defense fix and an easy market for exports has weakened our country. We have refused to develop nuclear weapons because the United States had them. We were economical in our military spending, knowing that Washington would take over. The gain for this intelligence: our productivity innovation and our per capita income stagnated.

Today, Mr. Trumps, the anti -missile defense shield of the Golden Dome sea, no longer include Canadas North. And while America goes from the protector to Predator, Ottawa must seriously consider canceling our essential order of Lockheed Martin F-35 fighter planes, because we cannot risk exposing our security to technologies controlled by us.

Canada can avoid becoming an American vassal by establishing balanced strategic relationships with powers in our east, in the west and north, but which will require a vision and determination that is sorely lacking in our leaders. What we need is a modern Winston Churchill, but as the Chinese poet of the 7th century, Chen Ziang, deplored when the Tang dynasty was in a similar existential crisis, the greats of the past are nowhere, and there does not seem to be their aceniality.

Canada cannot count on Europe or Indo-Pacific to considerably support our defense against the potential threats of China, Russia or the United States, there will be no recovery for our support in Ukraine, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan which has never been a double-meaning street.

While we are advancing in unexplored waters, the only country that will defend Canada against predatory expansionists is Canada itself. The dispute is to carry out the dignity, the courage and the clarity of the objective.

All this fuels the Chinese dream of Xi Jinpings, which would achieve its historic ambition to restore China to the imperial domination of all under the sky like the Chinese emperors of ancient times.

Mr. XI spoke of Mao Zedong in his confidence that the east wind will prevail to the west. In this context, Maga's madness accelerates change in weather conditions. Even when Mr. Trump is gone, Canada will have to take up even more important challenges and we can.