“The anti China haters hate Trump more than China.”

The China haters (華人恨國黨) hate Trump more because he wants to talk to Russia and China rather than fight with them. 

If Trump doesn’t want to fight China, why did he pack his cabinet with China haters & China hawks who are hell-bent on starting war with China? 

I believe Trump’s people are mostly “prioritizers”, whose main goal is war with China.  The appointment of Elbridge Colby strengthens that conviction. But they still want war. They are not peaceniks. 

Biden’s people were “primacists” those who want to dominate the whole world.
It’s unclear what Trump is personally: isolationist, prioritizer, or primacist. I think he will settle for primacy in his own mind if he can’t have primacy: he is capable of mentally twisting a loss into a win. 

In part Trump’s desire to do so is a recognition of the end of Euro-American hegemony.

I think Trump’s election platform was not the recognition of the End of EA hegemony, but a call to reconstitute it, and a pitch that he was the person to do it.  Right now it’s manifesting in irrational ways that undermine hegemony even further, primarily attacks on immigrants (because immigrants do a lot of the work that keeps the US afloat), on allies, or tariff wars. Whether this is isolationism, going gently into that good night, or something much more sinister remains to be seen. I’ve called it the school shooter stage of Empire, and in part, I believe, is that he does not want to see trade competition devolve into hot warfare. It remains to be seen.  Nobody wants war, until it happens. (By KJN 5-12-25)