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Deferred due to the US-Israeli war against Iran, Trump finally visited China last week, where he received an apparently 'warm' welcome from Xi Jinping, along with a stern warning: do not mess with Taiwan, and let us work to avoid the 'Thucydides Trap', wherein a dominant power inevitably wars with a rising power. Whether Trump understood the finer points of Chinese diplomacy is unclear, but it's clear he intended to 'do big business deals' by bringing 'our finest' captains of industry in tow.

Overhanging the event is the 'unfinished business' in Iran, where it's looking increasingly likely that the US and Israel will 'have another go' at 'reopening the Strait of Hormuz'. Should that be attempted, we are staring down the barrel of a gargantuan global energy crisis. Does Trump care? He certainly cares about his legacy, and even he must doubt the chances of the US 'fall-back plan' of North America supplanting the Middle East as the 'global energy spigot' in the event that the Gulf becomes FUBAR...


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