Ten
Points about Trump and Asia Policy
Some
criticism has been directed at Donald Trump's Asian policy. Generally
the critics are pots calling the kettle black as it were, as if the
U.S.A. usually has had good Asian policy since the Vietnam conflict.
So
I will supply some of my own ideas about Asian policy in order to
illustrate the point that it isn't difficult to form a practical
executive Asia policy.
1)
China is OK. and not much of a threat for war. China is vulnerable
militarily from numerous angles and will remain so yet is,
alternatively, not in much danger of being attacked.
The
Chinese economy may change regardless of global attitudes to China,
in ways that cannot present be foreseen. There is no necessary course
of economic evolution the Chinese have a course of destiny upon
except the environmental constraints facing all of the people of the
world today.
If
China were the first large economy to adapt to ecological economic
policies of low entropy and sustainability through selective,
democratic capital review qualitative growth innovations it would be
somewhat antipathetic to external old-style capitalism and
contemporary global finance infrastructure though not in conflict.
There is no probability that China will take the way of the emerald
sword rather than that of the worsted dragon of global warming and
viscous capitalism reinforced with semi-socialism.
2)
With so many globalists seeking to exploit and be exploited by
Chinese consumption and production phenomenalities of potential U.S.
Congresspersons are reluctant to put U.S> national interests
before those of Wall Street and Chinese trade and investment. Trump
can pursue more national advantage policies for the U.S.A. without
exploiting China or creating military conflict with little effort
though panic stricken politicians worry about their Wall Street
contributors wishes.
3)
China in its new era of swagger has expanded in the South China Sea
aggressively creating some military issues for the Philippines and
Vietnam as well as damage to the environment, yet global warming and
rising sea levels may render those investments to King Canute status
eventually. Worst about the Chinese land building in the ocean is
what it says about that nation's environmental attitudes; that entire
area should be off limits to resource use at all in order to let
fisheries recover that are already overstressed.
4)
Taiwan seems to have a better relationship with China these days, yet
drone aircraft can help them keep a lower-cost balance of power to
prevent Chinese invasion, as well as to provide a counter-strike
capability on the Chinese mainland. Cheap hover-drones and
mini-fast-smart-torpedo-submersible drones can attack Red Army
assault boats in the Formosa Strait and sink invading forces after
they are manufactured that will help keep U.S. naval forces from
needing to be involved in regional disputes de guerre.
5)
Vietnam does not allow enough philosophy and religion books to be
marketed and has inferior Internet access for ordinary people yet
what can Trump be expected to do about that?
6)
Indonesia is too Muslim and that isn't Trump's fault. In some
respects Indonesia and Malaysia shouldn't be thought of as really
Asian at all. Instead they are more islanders as is New Guinea and
Australia (the big island). China cannot be a threat to islanders or
that could involve a just war with drones filling the skies like a
zillion mosquitoes. The islands including the Philippines would be
ruined by Muslims and improved by environmentalist Christians
although all face the threat of capitalist scientism represented by
godless atheists. Godless atheist probably don't like Trump even
though he hasn't been seen swaggering around with a copy of 'God,
Cosmology and Nothingness'. Trump can call on the island nations to
be environmentally improving and good Christians with good
neighborliness with more literacy. China could help instruct in the
theory of environmental economics, but even the second edition of the
Daley, Farleigh textbook on environmental economics runs about 80
bucks.
7)
Japan isn't a problem. They just need to keep working on refining
technology and increasing its efficiency while improving the
environment as best as possible. They should also stop whaling and
renounce it as a pagan, heathen, uniformed bite of savagery they
regret, yet its unlikely to occur. One may worry about the Japanese
soul that isn't usually saved and isn't well-informed about Jesus
Christ. A priesthood of believers might help with that, although that
hasn't even got started in the U.S.A.
8)
Burma or Myanmar seems to present some problems for itself. Working
with security issues and promoting religious and sectarian
non-violence as a norm would be useful. For any of the Asian nations
it would be a good idea not to use foreign policy to promote
homosexuality as the Obama administration has.
9)
Trump could stop Wall Street pursuit of globalization of trade
through free trade agreements that can tear up the local economy and
advantage globalists far too much. Ecologically speaking it is
better-because of lower added entropy-to produce things locally
consumed locally. Three-D printers making goods in localities are
better than making them in one part of the world and shipping them to
another.
Because
it is a smaller world now with large aircraft and fast large
container ships global trading will continue with or without trade
agreements; the question is who will benefit most-ordinary people or
the one percent of plutocratic globalists, and will it help or harm
the environment and local political sovereignty.
One
wonders if Asian algo dark pool traders buy up planetary bulk goods
for instant profits too as globally as Wall Streeters, and how that
would be a problem for long-range demographic economic improvement as
well as environmental prospects; if profits are skimmed off the top
that could make people more environmentally desperate at the bottom.
U.S.
help with educational tools at low nominal cost with cheap tablets
full of language translators, math tutoring, philosophical thought,
geography and history could be provided in solar-recharging,
waterproof and break resistant presentations that would let people
help themselves better. A library of practical, diagrammatic how-to
guides could be chipped in (build a better hut, desalinate water,
etc) and provided by the millions-maybe with a cell phone or wifi
included in a new kind of piecework corps for Asia's poor.
10)
North Korea is the 50 pound guerrilla in the room of Asia developing
a career as a nuclear steroids bodybuilder with ambition to be a 500
pounder. Bill Clinton's food for nukes policy evidentially sustained
them through the hard times until they could get their first crop of
nuclear weapons to grow to maturity. So now they have several and are
trying to make their typo dong missiles bigger and able to reach
Boston and D.C. Democrats have appeased them. Its hard to say what
Trump or anyone else can do with that. Maybe science needs to evolve
some new tricks for dealing with local nuclear proliferation
problems.
