they’re also ran by competent governance so would have prepared for this likelihood. there is genuinely no reason for top-xi to put all the eggs in one basket. i mean at this point they’ve had almost a decade to ready themselves for trump’s antinixon shock, he even gave them a little test run during his first term so they could get some experience.
Trump as the anti-nixon is an interesting thought. I know you’re limiting it to Chinese relations opening/closing trade, but now I’m curious if there are other anti-parallels (perpendiculars?).
yanis varoufakis and others have written extensively about the manner in which trump’s actions are sort of a (poorly constructed, extremely not thought-out) reversal of the post-Bretton Woods economic global order.
If anything that makes me feel that even a hyper-liberal like Nixon was still actually competent, despite how much he fucked up but his administration were still planning things, they still cared.
I mean our leaders here dont care to stop shit like that. They are just letting a genocide continue; In this analogy theyre actually burning the river.
Theyre Burning The River. I think you could name an article on the Nixon-Trump parallel that.
they’re also ran by competent governance so would have prepared for this likelihood. there is genuinely no reason for top-xi to put all the eggs in one basket. i mean at this point they’ve had almost a decade to ready themselves for trump’s antinixon shock, he even gave them a little test run during his first term so they could get some experience.
Trump as the anti-nixon is an interesting thought. I know you’re limiting it to Chinese relations opening/closing trade, but now I’m curious if there are other anti-parallels (perpendiculars?).
yanis varoufakis and others have written extensively about the manner in which trump’s actions are sort of a (poorly constructed, extremely not thought-out) reversal of the post-Bretton Woods economic global order.
Any writings you recommend for that in particular?
https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2025/02/21/donald-trumps-economic-masterplan-unherd/
and then https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2025/04/03/will-the-trump-shock-prove-as-momentous-as-the-nixon-shock-unherd-op-ed-on-bbc-tv/
with the caveat that i think yanis is probably giving the trump guys too much credit in terms of actually having thought this through.
If anything that makes me feel that even a hyper-liberal like Nixon was still actually competent, despite how much he fucked up but his administration were still planning things, they still cared.
Cool, thanks!
Nixon created the EPA and several medical services.
Trump dismantled those same institutions.
We live in a world where Richard Nixon is seen as a decent, responsible, and forward-thinking statesman.
Richard. God. Damned. Nixon.
I mean he only did it because a river caught on fire and nobody could put it out
I mean our leaders here dont care to stop shit like that. They are just letting a genocide continue; In this analogy theyre actually burning the river.
Theyre Burning The River. I think you could name an article on the Nixon-Trump parallel that.