Trump Should Be More Ambitious With China

The Trump administration's war against Iran is an implicit policy of deprioritizing Asia. Once again, American resources and attention are diverted to the Middle East. An amphibious assault ship and a unit of marines deployed from Japan. Precision weapons the U.S. would need in a fight with China were transferred from the Indo-Pacific and rapidly expended. And President Donald Trump's April trip to China, to be the first by an American president in nearly a decade, was delayed by a month and a half to May 14 and 15. The president said he needed to stay in Washington because "we've got a war going on. I think it's important that I be here."