It’s still Hot Stove League season, so here’s the diplomatic equivalent: China agrees to cut off all oil supplies to North Korea, and to try to engineer a coup, in exchange for an end to US arms sales to Taiwan.
It’s not Giancarlo Stanton to the Yankees, but it has sizzle, no?
The Taiwanese are worried that Trump plans to use them as a bargaining chip in his dealings with China. Since there is no moral dimension to “America First” (morality is for suckers, after all), they have good reason.