Desperate search for Trump’s cunning plan

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Siem Reap Airport, your eyes should be a pretty arched ceiling or the most polished floor in the world. Cambodia, how was the UN before least developed Countries, come to build so smooth and modern active in the second city? Advertising boards in the hall do not doubt. Invest in China and KnowHow did it.

In other news, the United States offers a 49 percent tariff in Cambodia. The neighboring Vietnam gets 46 percent. Although Singapore escapes with 10, it is now afraid to the economic model of the trade management. Southeast Asia is the front of the US-China contest – Donald Trump is a competition that has held its predecessors as a soft touch for Beijing – the states of praise and help us to start hedging. In other words, a Maga target (China’s approval) is against another (“Freedom Day”).

Now, let me have a smart reason that cries, in factThis all makes sense. There is always.

What point does the world call to look for a magnificent Trump strategy? British readers will always remember the unhappy TV side in the “a cunning plan”, Baldxick. Trump doesn’t make such a claim. Instead, there are cunning plans that are compliant with those who are difficult to believe that Dogma, Caprice and Nihilism are at the beginning of the policy.

Thus, with the tariffs, we have a very smart half theory that only wants to pressure the countries, it just wants to convert countries to manage the cost of the dollar. If this goal was, why have you not targeted the largest economy? (In 1985, Plaza covered Accord, USA, England, West Germany, France and Japan. Or Botswana? In principle, the mathematical random, where there should be a clue where no major chess game is open.

The “Plaza Theory” is not the most exotic try to rationalize Trump policies this year. Given the treatment of Ukraine, some show that the opposite Nixon is a “opposite Nixon” Afooth from the United States from China’s arms. Why this is not to ask for such a strategic blow to China, which is 10 times in Russia.

In parallel, a theory releases US resources to the United States for the “true” Asian Theater who rebelled Ukraine. However, if this was the goal of Trump, the American will strengthen its allies in the region. Instead, no president made it clear that the US security guarantee should not be trusted. If the Europeans are exposed, consider whether Philippines or Japan, both in Japan have been a defensive pact against the United States since 1951. Not Trump. This is a respected choice. How did he appeared with the idea that America was America and the reliability for the Pacific? This is not. This is not intended.

In the end, there are a large number of contradictions on Trump WorldView to guarantee any conversation of a large plan. For example, its movement is itself the following two truths. China is a ruthless force that Western governments have established for a long time. But Victor Orban, a male bridge of China to Europe? Great guy. If the strategy means something, things are a sense of tie. There are none here.

Again, the world will try to find shapes and patterns in chaos. For many, I suspect this is an emotional fighting mechanism. At all times, terrible times are a soothing thing to believe that a secret plan is at work.

But here it lasts more than fear. As a result, liberal societies are struggling to understand – or even to lend the presence of irrational actors. When we face them, our reflex is to find a logic behind their behavior, and even force them to force them. Many people spent a lot of time claiming that al-Qaeda caused the miserable situation of Palestinians and other low Muslims. The 2020’s 2020’s equivalent of Russia’s Neo-Imperial rhetoric is a discount as so padding, no doubt should be a set of pragmatic requirements.

This blind stain is not the fact that the extremists cannot accept according to their words, the West can do much. Based on a culture about the world – as necessary – and it becomes difficult for other drivers of human behavior. The job is particularly hopeless. The rationalism of techniques and financial mogules included them into the current acids through Trump. They are not specifically as they think they are pragmatic. Are responsible for thinking that everyone is.

I myself also has the perfect hour and neurons looking for a great Trump design of the world. How much does one have? Well, it has a friendly belief that manages a current account deficit “lose”. In addition, the desire to negotiate and even for the bad terms, “the deal is ready to settle for a new financial and security architect. But I just wait for a new financial and security architect?

Janan.ganesh@ft.com