Trade reset: U.S., Japan, and India (decoupling the U.S. from China)

In The Last Refuge, Sundance tells us,

The U.S, Japan and India have been working on the Indo-Pacific trade reset for several years. ...President Trump was never negotiating a “deal” with China, he was strategically decoupling the U.S. from China.

If Trump wasn’t decoupling from China, then all of these conversations with Mexico, Canada, the U.K., Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Indonesia, Australia, Brazil and India would not be taking place in the clear manner and sequencing we have seen.

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