If I were China, helping the USA would be the last country that should be helped. Other than that, I would also mention Mexico, Italy and Argentina. These are snakes in the eagle's shadow that are turning around to bite China.
If I were China, helping countries in BRICS should be the absolute priority. And with that Vietnam, Myanmar and other friendly South-East Asian countries comes to mind for Chinese investments. I mentioned 'friendly' to distinguish some that are less than friendly and could be traitorous.
Further than those, there are countries like Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and other countries like Nepal and Bhutan eager to progress with more foreign investments. Not to forget those friendly countries in Africa as well.
The world is so big, and the Global South so full of opportunities that China can do business with. If the West wants to close their borders to Chinese investments, other doors will willingly open up.
Trump is using high handed tactics against Japan, South Korea and Taiwan to invest more in the USA to help with Trump's manufacturing push. Those touted investments were all part of the deal over tariffs with arm twisting so blatant that TSMC is nervous about shifting 50% of its chip production to the USA, which means even the high-end stuff that the USA is looking at with green eyes. If TSMC goes to the USA, Taiwan is no longer of strategic importance to the USA. Keep that in mind.
Amidst all the rosy picture painted by the USA about chip manufacturing in Arizona, China can easily take care of them by cutting off rare earth minerals essential for chip production. Right now, Arizona does not even have the supply chains necessary for making chips and TSMC is reported to be shipping chemicals and even super pure water from Taiwan to Arizona to keep its chip production moving. Just imagine the costs involved and what those chips are going to cost. What markets are they looking at? Enough said.
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Hamas cannot be that naive to even suggest that it wants a guarantee from Trump to ensure the peace deal with Israel, which is genuinely going to end the war. Trump would be the last person on earth to honor agreements, even on paper. Why is Hamas digging a hole for itself so that it will fall into eventually?
We should remember the laughable promise by Trump in negotiations with Kim Jong Un years ago, where he promised that Kim will still be able to continue to rule North Korea if Kim takes the deal to totally de-nuclearize. I knew Kim would never trust Trump and it proved to be so. Kim Jong Un is not that stupid as Trump thinks, to believe in a trap set by Trump. This conman will never honor his words, and Kim knows it well enough.
Now, would Hamas really think that Trump will guarantee its survival or is instead making sure that Hamas is going to be destroyed one way or another at the hands of Israel, with the release of the remaining hostages the only pivotal point? Trump cannot even control Netanyahu. On the contrary he is under the control of Netanyahu instead, and his agenda is bringing about a temporary truce by hook or by crook, so that he can smell his Nobel Peace Prize. I do not believe that Hamas leaders are that stupid to even suggest being given such a baseless guarantee from Trump. Peace in the Middle East is just a mirage.
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