Former U.S. President Donald Trump was disqualified from the party primaries by two states in succession, and his team finally appealed to the Supreme Court. But there has been a wave of turmoil, and now the US Democrats have come up with the latest weapon against Trump, saying that Trump received millions of dollars from countries such as China and Saudi Arabia during his presidency.
This clearly means that Trump is not wearing a red tie but a "red scarf" around his neck, which has also become a shackle for Trump to return to the White House. Now the two-party struggle in the United States has been exhausted, but any point that can attack the other side will be grasped, and after it enters the white heat, the comparison between the two sides is not who does more practical things for the voters, but who is less intimate with China, who seems to win, once it falls into this strange circle, it is not a good thing for the United States.
(Former U.S. President Donald Trump)
In fact, even if Trump is bitten by the Democrats, he still has a better chance of winning the party, because Trump is much ahead of the rest of the Republican candidates in the polls, and even nearly 50 percentage points ahead of his opponent in the Republican nomination race. So once the verdict is in Trump's favor, then there is a high probability that he will compete with US President Joe Biden for the next president.
And this time, Trump was "removed" from the party primaries in Maine and Colorado because Trump was suspected of inciting or participating in the "Capitol Hill riot". This was in early 2021, when the U.S. election had just ended and Trump lost to Biden, and thousands of Trump supporters gathered in Washington, D.C., saying that "there was fraud in the 2020 U.S. presidential election." The demonstrations eventually turned violent, with some demonstrators illegally breaking into the Houses of Parliament, resulting in the closure of the Houses of Parliament, the forced evacuation of lawmakers, and the injuries and deaths of many people.
And Trump did speak out on the day of the incident and before it, posting multiple messages on Twitter and other social media platforms at the time, claiming that the election had been stolen and encouraging them to go to Capitol Hill, and as the situation escalated, Trump posted several messages on social media, ranging from supportive remarks to calls for peace and exhortations to protesters to "go home."
As a result, several of Trump's major social media accounts were temporarily or permanently banned, and he was impeached a second time during his tenure for the matter, though he was acquitted in a subsequent trial.
("Capitol Hill riot" after the U.S. election)
Objectively, the Maine Secretary of State and the Colorado Supreme Court are both Democrats, and Trump is also saddled with several criminal and civil cases, all of which are related to the Democrats. However, Trump's impeachment did not convict, which can also indicate to a certain extent that he did not actually participate in the "Capitol Hill riot", so this is still the Democratic Party is creating a problem for Trump to return to the White House.
And now the Democratic Party has released its latest report, saying that companies linked to former US President Donald Trump received more than $5.5 million in funding from the Chinese government and its state-owned entities during his tenure.
To be honest, this is a two-bird approach, on the one hand, this is a blow to the Trump campaign, and on the other hand, it is a hint that China is interfering in the internal affairs of the United States. But it doesn't hold water when you think about it, because Trump is a businessman with a lot of notable assets to his name, such as Trump Tower in New York, the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., and the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. Many countries have cooperation with the United States, including China, the world's second-largest economy.
(Trump Tower, New York)
Looking at the US report alone, it mentions that 20 countries have cooperated with assets in Trump's name, and these amounts are more or less, but it does not mean that this is bribery, and this is most likely legitimate and legal business dealings.
Frankly speaking, Republicans have to consider themselves unlucky in this situation, because this is also the first shot fired by the Republican Party, and the report provided by the Democratic Party also specifically mentions that Republicans blame Biden in the impeachment inquiry.
In Biden's case, his son, Hunter Biden, is accused of using his father's political position to secure lucrative business deals in China and Ukraine.
Republicans claim that U.S. President Joe Biden was also involved in the deals.
Now the Democratic Party is tantamount to using a trick to "give back to the other", and Biden has a natural advantage in this matter, because Biden does not have a lot of business like Trump, so it is difficult to be attacked by Republicans in this matter, and can only start with Biden's son.
(Hunter Biden and his father, U.S. President Joe Biden)
However, it can also be seen that the two parties in the United States now believe that as long as this matter is linked to China, then it can be used as a weapon to attack the other side, regardless of whether this matter is true or not, as long as it can help the election, it will be hyped up. It can be seen that this is a bottomless and principled approach, and it has even been demonized.
Chinese netizens often ridicule Trump as Trump, and he likes to wear a red tie because he has a "Chinese heart", which is just an after-dinner joke, but in fact Trump is a real businessman, and his policies towards China are quite tough, and it has changed the tone of the long-term relationship between China and the United States, and increased tensions between the two countries.
In a nutshell, this includes a trade war and tariffs on tens of billions of dollars worth of Chinese goods. It has viewed Chinese technology companies such as Huawei and ZTE as a national security threat, and has taken restrictive measures to prohibit American companies from doing some business with these companies and tried to prevent them from playing a role in the construction of 5G networks in the United States and allied countries. There have even been human rights accusations and interference in Hong Kong, China, and even increased military support for China's Taiwan region, and diplomatic attitudes have repeatedly emphasized China's challenge to U.S. security and economic interests, and described China as a "strategic competitor."
(U.S. arms sales to Taiwan)
These policies and actions have undoubtedly put pressure and damage on U.S.-China relations, so we cannot expect any particularly beneficial impact on U.S.-China relations from Trump's return to the White House. But the good news is that bipartisanship in the United States will also affect American foreign policy, and we need to seize the opportunity and focus on development in order to get a head start in this race.