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FOR months, US Republican hopeful Donald Trump has vented his spleen at targets he holds responsible for the alleged decline the US. Among his chosen culprits are immigrants, Muslims, liberals, the mass media, the political Establishment and the leadership of the Communist Party of China.
Although delivered in a growl, his is a self-pitying whine that bears no relation to the continuing position of the US as the strongest economic and military power in the world.
To the millions of US workers and their families who have experienced a real decline in their living standards, he offers pseudo-patriotic platitudes while demanding greater freedom for the very big business market forces that have wreaked such havoc in so many local communities.
JENNY CLEGG looks at the key points that defined the China-US relationship, for now
International solidarity can ensure that Trump and his machine cannot prevail without a level of political and economic cost that he will not want to pay, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
As the dollar falters and US power turns predatory, Britain and Europe must abandon transatlantic illusions and build a collectivist alternative before the system implodes, writes ALAN SIMPSON
It’s the dramatic rise of China with its burgeoning economy that has put the Trump administration into a frenzy – with major implications both at home and abroad, argues MICHAEL BURKE