How Trump sold out world trade to China
China's Xi Jinping, in contrast, presents himself as a capable world leader who masters the world's complex challenges that fail to interest the US president.
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US President Donald Trump returned from his 12-day trip to Asia, proclaiming it historic. Indeed, it was historic, but not for the reasons he listed. Instead, 52 years after US Marines landed on the beach of Da Nang, which launched the country's fateful intervention in Vietnam, the president visited the same place - not to commemorate America's sacrifice but to symbolically highlight the futility of that venture.
Washington policymakers intervened in Vietnam during the 1960s to prevent what they perceived as the domination of Communist China.
This was a misreading of history.
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