who kind of prides himself on throwing away all the accomplishments of his predecessors and in so doing is essentially saying we don t care about that. on the other hand, it s not as if he s kind of become friends with the chinese. you have to recall his entire east asia strategy the endopacific strategy is to encircle china and contain china, sort of a 1950s approach to the soviet union. so on the one hand, he said i don t care about human rights. on the other hand, he said i don t care about engaging china. and what he has tried to do is to create a circumstance everybody joins in this kind of cold war type effort against china. the problem is most countries in asia recognize the importance and the complexity of china and they would like to see a u.s. that is engaged rather than with these cartoon strokes. i want to share what commerce secretary wilbur ross said