>Why is POTUS focused on SA/CHINA/RUSSIA?

These 3 countries are pushing hard to claim world’s natural resources and promote expansionism over weaker neighbors.

Revenue chain is dispersed among a larger number of companies. Piracy makes America weak by allowing trade secrets and intellectual property to be “shared”

Trump is trying to strengthen domestic fundamentals (taxes, employment, GDP, debt management) and unite American people to project US as a globally essential powerhouse.

Xi claims to be supporter of globalism. US needs to force the issue to gain and keep trade presence in global economy. Fair deals means critics can’t bash Trump because they’re fair bilaterally.

This is where Asia Foundation and TPP is bad news. Many Asian countries want to trade with US to gain their independence from China, their bully, manipulator, thief of natural resources. This is reason for China expanding Silk Roads into Africa.

Trump needs to turn the China ship without insulting them. A trade war would hurt both countries. In addition to curtailing China’s cyber hacking and expansionary goals for Asia, Trump’s main goal or most immediate goal is fair trade deals.

He has already started. Repatriation of foreign profits move money back to USA (Apple). I bigly subtle move is FED raising rates and shrinking balance sheet. This move will create a credit crisis for China, which will lessen its dominance in Asia and beyond.