Obama vs Trump, whose policies benefit Moscow & Beijing ？
1. The Asia Rebalance Strategy
Russia invaded Ukraine, the communist China's growing military power threatens its neighbors, and with Beijing and Moscow's help, North Korea advances its development of nuclear weapons and missiles rapidly.
The Six-party talks aimed to resolve the North Korean nuclear weapon problem, but because of Beijing and Moscow's "strategic procrastination", it became a time-wasting procedure that actually buys time for North Korean, allowing Kim Jong-Un to further develop his nuclear warheads and missiles. Kim's goal is to make his nuclear missiles able to attack the US directly, and force the world to recognize North Korea as a nuclear-weapon state.
Under such circumstances, Obama launched the Asia Rebalance Plan.
2. TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership)
TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) is the economic part of Asia Rebalance Strategy. Obama knows that the US needs allies to achieve its global strategic goals, therefore he signed TPP, an international trade agreement between the US and many Asia-Pacific countries, excluding Russia & China.
Moscow and Beijing hate TPP, because TPP is an economic containment strategy against Russia and the communist China. This economic union led by the US will weaken Russia and the communist China and prevent them from dominating Asia-Pacific region by economic invasion and infiltration.
However, Trump withdrew the US signature from TPP right after he took office, and therefore successfully destroyed the US's economic containment strategy against Russia and the communist China.
Not only that, Trump also wants to launch trade wars against many countries including US allies, but because of the congress's interference, Trump was only able to start a trade war against China so far.
Obama's strategy is ( US + allies ) vs ( Beijing & Moscow ) , while Trump's strategy is ( US alone ) vs ( many countries including US allies ). Which one is good for America ? The answer is obvious.
3. The international oil price
The price of oil is a vital factor that affects Russia's economy. For this reason, Obama made the price of oil decline, in order to prevent Russia from strengthening its invasive military power.
However, this strategy was subverted by Trump. In order to help Russia's economy, Trump did a number of things to raise the oil price, including withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement, dismantling of environmental regulations, etc.
4. Shifting military focus from the middle east to Asia-Pacific
Military redeployment is another part of the Asia Rebalance Strategy. In order to shift the US's military focus from the middle east to Asia-Pacific, Obama signed the Iran nuclear deal, and put great efforts into stabilizing the middle east.
However, these efforts were all destroyed by Trump. Trump withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal, and ignited the middle east tinderbox by recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital and Golan Heights as part of Israel.
Trump's decisions forced the US to throw more troops into the middle east mess, undermining the Asia Rebalance Strategy, and therefore helped Beijing and Moscow greatly.
5. The first island chain
The US maintains a defensive line at the first island chain, to prevent Russia, the Communist China, and North Korea from attacking the US directly. Obama knows the importance of this and therefore tightened US ties with Japan and Korea, and deployed THAAD in South Korea.
However, Trump claimed that he wants US troops to retreat from Japan and South Korea, which means that he wants Russia, the Communist China, and North Korea able to attack the US directly.
When the relationship between Japan and South Korea became worse because of Beijing & Moscow's secret work, Trump chose to ignore it.
Moreover, in order to find some excuses to withdraw US troops from Japan & South Korea, Trump demanded South Korea and Japan to raise their spending on the US troops by four times, and recently even threatened the Korean employees of USFK ( U.S. Forces Korea ) with unpaid leave.
Let's make one thing clear --- even if South Korea and Japan pay zero for US troops, the US still need to maintain the defensive line at the first island chain. Trump's threat of US troops withdrawal from South Korea & Japan is not only a threat to South Korea & Japan, but also a threat to America itself.
Trump often uses selfish excuses to damage the relationship between US and its allies, many of his supporters are deceived, believing that he works for American interests, but actually Trump hurts America greatly, and continuously.
6. NATO
Without NATO, Russia and the communist China can invade other countries one by one, and turn them all into tyrannical regimes. NATO is the biggest obstacle to Moscow & Beijing's ambition. For this reason, destroying NATO became Trump's foremost task.
Trump tries to destruct NATO by various means, including being rude to the leaders of US allies, damaging the relationship between US and its allies, trying to launch trade wars against them, etc.
Trump often uses selfish excuses, such as "Unfair to America", "Other countries should pay more", to justify his anti-US decisions, trying to make them look like pro-US decisions, and successfully fooled a lot of people.
The congress was aware of Trump's evil intention, and therefore set some barriers to prevent Trump from making US withdraw from NATO.
So as a "work-around", Trump proposed NATOME, in order to drag US & Europe into the mess of the middle east, shifting NATO's primary goal, and finally destruct NATO.
7. US leadership, world organizations, and international order
The leading role of US is pivotal to the current post-WWII international order. All former US presidents understand this, they founded many world organizations led by the US, and acted together with allies to achieve global strategic goals.
However, Trump does the contrary. Trump tries to renounce US global leadership, exit from all world organizations founded by the US, and demolish the international order established by the US.
Former US presidents' strategy is ( Keeping US global leadership ) & ( Acting together with allies ), while Trump's strategy is ( Renouncing US global leadership ) & ( Destroying US-led alliances ). Which one is good for America, and which one benefits Moscow & Beijing ? The answer is obvious.
8. The core values of America
The core values of America: freedom, equality, justice, self-government, diversity, etc., build up the spirit of America, which makes US a symbol of freedom & democracy, and the leader of the liberal international order.
And also, it is this spirit of America that makes the US truly great, honorable, admirable, and attractive, helping the US to gain long-term strategic advantages.
All former US presidents know this, therefore they always emphasize the universal values --- the values of freedom, human-rights, democracy, justice, etc., condemn those tyrannical regimes that violate these values, and support the individuals and organizations that struggle for these values.
However, unlike all former US presidents, Trump does not care about the core values of America. While claiming "make America great again", Trump actually abandoned the spirit of America that makes America truly great.
Always emphasizing short-term interests and monetary benefits, Trump throws away America's long-term national interests, moral standards, and spiritual benefits. Maybe a short-sighted, greedy, immoral, unjust, treacherous, and autocratic America is "great" for Trump, but it is neither great for the American people, nor for the world.
