People often misunderstand why Trump says these kinds of seemingly disagreeable things. They think he is cozying up to a dictator and then another round of TDS takes off. What they miss is that Trump’s default frame for almost everything is negotiation. Once you see it through that lens, a lot of it becomes more intelligible.With China in particular, this matters even more because their entire system operates on concepts of saving face and losing face, which effectively function as a parallel cu