How China perceives Trump's comeback

Donald Trump's political stand throughout his electioneering has been to re-shore manufacturing and employment, domestic tax cuts, hike tariffs on foreign goods, end wars, stop illegal immigration and make America great again.

- B.R. DEEPAK

Now, having won the election with an unprecedented mandate, nations are gearing up for the possible fallout of President-elect Trump's "isolationist" and "unilateralist" political and economic propositions.

Obviously, Ukraine must be the most worried nation and Israel the happiest. As regards China, Trump has been favoured over Kamala Harris for four reasonsone, externally, the alliance between the US and its allies would be weakened, two, the ideological debate between democracies and authoritarianism would be put to the backburner, three, would further the cause of national unification, and four, polarise the American society.

However, there is more to something that meets the eye, and China is already gearing up to meet the challenges pertaining to the security and defence strategy that included "2017 US National Security Strategy of the United States of America", "2018 US National Defence Strategy", "2019 Department of Defence Indo-Pacific Strategy" and "2019 Department of State: A Free and Open Indo-Pacific: Advancing a Shared Vision." These policy documents argued that China seeks to displace the United States in the Indo-Pacific region, and to shape a world antithetical to US values and interests. The 2019 document pronounces China as a revisionist power, and how it used coercive military and economic methods to advance its interests.