China understands doing deals, would be my guess. The relief from preaching probably makes it attractive.
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... Chimerica is broken, but it's not THAT broken. There's massive positive-sum space to negotiate in. ...
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... "Oh shit, America is being game-theoretically rational now." "Okay, but they're still playing our game." ...
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... Unless China has some bizarre crisis of confidence, it will carry on playing, and do fine. (China doing fine leaves plenty of space for America to massively improve it's position.) ...
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... Only reason this might not be true is if it was a hard zero-sum game. Neither Trump nor Xi believe this.
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Even if both sides tends to harsh realism, in which zero-sum games predominate, there's a lot of room for deals in which both improve their position. The world is a big place.
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America has far better long-term prospects in a well-negotiated bi-polar world than in a chaotically-collapsing mono-polar world.
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... I'm assuming that's what Trumpian FP is about.
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