President Trump's Foreign Policy in a Post-Aquittal Era: "It's all a democratic hoax!"

I think few of us will forget how the Secretary of the Army railed against China in hostile terms during his talk in a recent event at the Brookings Institution.  Slowly, the Trump administration is building an Iron Curtain around China, much like what it is doing around Iran.  Not Russia but China and Iran are the bogey-men on the other side.

This despite China's acceptance throughout Africa to build infrastructure, train and establish cordial relations with its governments; and a memo of understanding drawn up by China with Italy that it--China--will become a distributor of EU products in Africa.  Despite the US tariffs, China's trade has been expanded significantly.  But US investors aren't allowed to invest in Venezuelan oil because of the US sanctions currently in place against Venezuela.

So, in the first 3 years of Trump's Presidency, Russia has netted two new colonies:  Venezuela and Syria added to the one Cuba it had before Trump; and Trump has found a straw-man to say to business here at home, "See what you get for taking your factories abroad?  Someone, who'll steal your innovations!"  As if business isn't aware that innovation attracts copycats!