Trump dreaming again!

September 29, 2025

If Trump today — and I emphasise today, as tomorrow he will say something diametrically opposite to what he says today — believes that he can recreate the bipolar world of the Cold War by getting agreement with the US to divide the world into two blocks, he simply demonstrates again his intellectual vacuity.

The Chinese, since 1953 under Zhou Enlai, have pursued a policy of peaceful co-existence with all countries on the planet. That stance, unlike the hundreds of ephemeral and superficial policies that the US has pursued over the same more than 70 years, shows China is not for turning. Its policies are consistent and are based on the carefully thought out and consistently applied five principles of peaceful co-existence, “namely mutual respect for territorial integrity and sovereignty, non-aggression, non-interference in each other’s internal affairs, equality and mutual benefit, and peaceful co-existence”.

China will continue to pursue those principles in its relations with every country on the planet.

Outside the aggressive West, these are also what the rest of the world wants to do. The US will get left behind continuing its fruitless efforts to divide the world. That can only be a good outcome for humanity.