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In the Chess Match With China: Guess Who’s Asserted Control Over the Trade Routes Now?

Elite media would lead us to believe that Trump’s engagements on the world stage are random, haphazard and impulsive. Erick Erickson: With our alliances with the Philippines, Singapore, Indonesia, and our control of the Strait of Hormuz against Iran, the United States now controls every access point that China has to get to the other side of Southeast Asia, to get to India, to get to Africa, and to get to Europe. Every trade route China needs to go west is now controlled by the United States of America. Donald Trump did that. Pete Hegseth negotiated the deal with Indonesia…. The Trump administration has just put itself in a position to have the United States control every access point China has for trading west, west to Europe, west to Africa, west to India, west to other parts of Southeast Asia. The United States military now controls those routes. Have you heard about that in the press? I bet you haven’t. We have pushed China out of the Western hemisphere (Erickson). It reminds us of Secretary of State Rubio’s recent words: we in America have no interest in being polite and orderly caretakers of the West’s managed decline (State).