In this recent meeting, Trump showed China and the way the Chinese president treats it from the perspective of a superior power.

 

 

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In this recent meeting, Trump showed China and the way the Chinese president treats it from the perspective of a superior power.

 In reality, back in the late 1970s and early 1980s, barely having assumed leadership after Mao Zedong's death, Deng Xiaoping had no choice but to play the fool, like a dog being fawned over by Jimmy Carter. China was in no position to challenge the Americans, and it didn't; it only pretended.

They had to play dumb, feign humility before the American empire, and that's exactly what they did. Simultaneously, under the rules of neoliberal globalization that the Americans themselves had imposed following the 1973 oil crisis, China steadily moved to offload Western industry. In short, it gradually stole the industrial apparatus.

Almost half a century has passed since then, and today it is the Americans who express submission through their body language to the Chinese. Industry is in China, capital flows toward China. Today, logically, it is the Chinese who occupy the dominant position.

The tables have turned, and listen up: like Deng Xiaoping, Trump is likely doing all this for a strategic reason. Perhaps not as long-term as the Chinese strategy, because no one has that kind of Eastern patience, but strategic nonetheless.

Body language is discourse, it's a text, as Derrida would say. This text is the foundation for constructing a narrative that will legitimize something, and that something is what the Americans want to do with what remains of their crumbling empire.