Following a sweeping tour of diplomatic implosions spanning from the Middle East to NATO, the president will arrive in China on Thursday to see if the delicate standoff over Taiwan can also be comprehensively shattered.
WASHINGTON — Following a sweeping tour of diplomatic implosions spanning from the Middle East to NATO, President Donald Trump is scheduled to arrive in Beijing this week to begin systematically dismantling the remaining international order in the Pacific theater. White House scheduling documents confirm the two-day summit with President Xi Jinping is explicitly structured to maximize erratic power-tripping across as many fragile regional fault lines as possible before the weekend.
Aides familiar with the itinerary noted that the president's previous engagements—which successfully produced unprecedented misery and confusion in Gaza, Lebanon, and Ukraine—have left him eager to find a new, highly complex geopolitical situation to break. The fraught, decades-long standoff between China and Taiwan is reportedly viewed by the administration as an ideal target for the president's preferred strategy of demanding a bogus victory, forcing regional allies to pick up the tab, and abruptly abandoning the continent to deal with the resulting rubble.
The president has already bulldozed through our most vital alliances in Europe and the Middle East, so it is only natural that he would now turn his attention to the delicate security architecture of East Asia.
The Beijing summit will mark the first time a US president has visited China in nearly a decade, a gap that State Department officials worry has allowed the Indo-Pacific region to become unacceptably stable. Briefing materials prepared for the trip reportedly include a comprehensive list of workable strategies and consistent aims for the president to immediately disregard upon landing, alongside a brief operational reminder regarding his 2019 attempt to purchase Greenland.
As the looming threat of an expanding war in Iran continues to dominate foreign policy channels, Pentagon officials have quietly begun pre-authorizing emergency repair funds for whatever long-standing trade disputes Trump manages to violently escalate during his Thursday morning photo opportunity with Xi. At press time, the administration was already looking ahead to the next quarter, dispatching advance teams to locate any minor border skirmishes in sub-Saharan Africa that could be rapidly transformed into intractable global crises.