If you wanted to pressure North Korea, starting a trade war with China was dumb. If you wanted to pressure China, bailing on TPP and imposing tariffs on allies was dumb. Rally the world behind one pressure campaign and it might work. Instead, you decided to fight everyone at oncehttps://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1033045280143355904 …
There isn't the slightest indication the Trump administration is confronting China and North Korea as a single problem. Rather, it's confronting them as separate problems, but at the same time.