China, through their state media, is presenting itself as a stable and reliable alternative to the chaos and instability of the Trump administration. President Xi is presenting as a leader to developing nations to form an alternative bloc to rich western nations.

The mature economies of Western Europe had lower growth rates of developing nations, this is accepted. A developing nation experiences rapid growth as the economy modernises, there is investment in factories and infrastructure, people are lifted out of poverty, and the economy industrialises. China is looking to partner with developing nations through the Belt and Road Initiative in West Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America. I have to be pretty respectful to President Xi, he has a strategy and he is executing the stability brilliantly.

What China is offering to developing nations is a stable and reliable partner, Xi is playing the long game in typical Chinese style. What has Trump done, slapped tariffs on partners, threatened to invade Greenland, pull out of NATO, troop withdrawals from Germany, insulting Emanuel Macron’s wife, abusing Spain, then turned on Italy, claims NATO took the easy route in Afghanistan, the verbal stoush with United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer, the issues with Canada and Mark Carney, and then there is Mexico. The chaos of the Trump Administration will damage the United States in the long-term, the short-term damage is already apparent so this is no stretch.