complaints he had about china that ordinarily would have been handled by diplomat s and quietly in order to get china to come around, especially trying to get chinese help on stopping the crazy north koreans from blowing up things. but this pattern of constantly using threats, here s what i want to you do if you don t do it, boom, i m going to hit you on something, that is, i think, very unlike any president i ve seen. it s very new and i think may work for a while but ultimately it has real problems we ll run into real resistance down the road. i think the chinese, among others, will not be bullied. keerston, what do you think? because his supporters seem to like it. is he an equal opportunity offender. doesn t matter. is that right? he s very aggrieved and sees himself as being under attack and undervalued and i don t know that he thinks it s punching down. i think he feels like he s on the same level. counterpunch.