On Balance by Robert Delaney

Donald Trump may lack a coherent China policy, but he got something right

The US president understood that his predecessors gave away far more to China than the US received and that Beijing respects power, not diplomacy

Post-Trump, Washington and its allies will need to play a long game, demanding from China changes that should have been made a long time ago

Robert Delaney

Published: 4:33am, 23 Jun, 2020

Updated: 5:10am, 23 Jun, 2020

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Robert Delaney is the Post’s North America bureau chief. He spent 11 years in China as a language student and correspondent for Dow Jones Newswires and Bloomberg, and continued covering the country as a correspondent and an academic after leaving. His debut novel, The Wounded Muse, draws on actual events that played out in Beijing while he lived there.

Donald Trump may lack a coherent China policy, but he got something right

The US president understood that his predecessors gave away far more to China than the US received and that Beijing respects power, not diplomacy Post-Trump, Washington and its allies will need to play a long game, demanding from China changes that should have been made a long time ago

The US president understood that his predecessors gave away far more to China than the US received and that Beijing respects power, not diplomacy

Post-Trump, Washington and its allies will need to play a long game, demanding from China changes that should have been made a long time ago