In a world where realignments and great power rivalry has emerged, the United States, under the leadership of President Donald Trump, has given China an unparalleled geopolitical present. By repudiating old alliances, calling into doubt long-standing obligations and adopting a more isolationist policy, the Trump administration is in effect remaking the global balance of power – and not in anybody in Washington’s favor – but in Beijing’s.
A Strategic Realignment
The United States claims to have been its years as the guardian of the “free world,” opposing authoritarian regimes and strong anti-alliance to keep the world stable. But in a couple of weeks, Trump’s moves – especially his about-face on Ukraine and his words directed at NATO – have set off shock waves across Europe and around the world. The most immediate consequence? A power vacuum in global leadership which China is more than eager to occupy.
China has encapsulated its global push across various axes– economically through belt and Road initiative, diplomatically through strategic partnerships and millitarily through rapid modernization. At this point, with Trump undermining America’s commitment of defending Ukraine and working alongside NATO partners, Beijing sees a chance to fast-track its ambitions uncontested. 
The European Dilemma
The continent faces a hard reality now – the United States, once its most trusty security provider, might no longer be an accountable ally. With Trump’s reluctance to stand against Russian expansionism, European countries must reassess their geopolitical math. As they scramble to build up their defenses, they are also looking for alternate economic partnerships — with China being one of them.
China has been heavily investing in European infrastructure, technology and energy sectors already. As confidence in U.S. leadership falters, Beijing is set to strengthen these economic relationships, one by one tempting European countries into its orbit. This is win for Xi Jinping whose Govt makes profit on economic dependancy into political influence.
The Asia-Pacific Fallout
Asia is already starting to feel the slings and arrows in America’s waning credibility. For decades Japan, South Korea, and Australia have been protected by U.S. security guarantees against a more assertive China Allies like
However, Trump actions on Ukraine beg the controversial question: If Washington is OK abandoning Kyiv what makes them different from other international hotspots such as Taiwan?
Beijing has already milked these doubts. Chinese diplomats and state media are capitalizing on such an opportunity to portray China as a stable stable and reliable permanent counterweight to US. Simultaneously, a China that seeks deeper military and economic cooperation with Russia, North Korea and Iran; a new order of nations looking to partly benefit from American disengagement.
A Self-Inflicted Wound
According Trump’s die-hard, his method is to readjust American foreign policy in favor of making sure allies do their part to help itself. Except that’s much starker in practice. When he starts declaring that US commitments are contingent and transactional, all his alliance that have held authoritarian aggression in check are somehow rendered less credible.
Washington is doing China’s job of projecting global power without having to fire a shot, and in so doing the United States is providing an example that China would rather stay away from. Trump’s policies are doing everything they can to make this world – in which Beijing gets to dictate terms. History has taught, once influence is lost it never comes back from anywhere.
In the global chessboard of geopolitics, China is playing the long game and Trump has already put China in checkmate because of his blunders.
