When I was in Vanuatu 5 years ago I found it scary that China was building a whole town, and Chinese specific hotels etc. I’d feel a lot more worried if I went now and Trump’s America was imprinting itself.
We don’t really need anything from them, just trade, so we should be able to get along just fine. If we stopped repeating US threats they’d stop threatening us and we could just muddle along, build trust over time.
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Most countries we mostly ignore, and we get along famously with them. It’s when we have a domestic agenda that things go wrong.