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Come next Monday, Donald Trump’s stacked lineup of Republicans will be marching into the White House, ushering in his second term as US President. Many members of his administration promise to uphold quite “ambitious” policies. Which ones are at the top of the pile? You guessed it; it’s about China. Most of the president-elect’s nominated cabinet members will appear before the Senate today. And with a cabinet packed with like-minded allies, Trump’s team is all about one thing and one thing only: American economic dominance. Even if it comes at the expense of U.S.-China relations, the president-elect simply doesn’t care, or at least it doesn’t look like he does. A unified front: Trump’s inner circle on China Donald Trump’s first-round pick starts with Marco Rubio, or as the businessman once called him, Little Rubio. He is nominated for Secretary of State and is known for his hawkish views on China, Venezuela, and Cuba (He’s Latino). “We cannot allow China to dictate global trade norms while undermining our own economic sovereignty.” Those were Rubio’s words on China. He is set to appear before the Senate for questioning today, and it is safe to say he fits in perfectly with Trump’s tariff-heavy agenda.  Then there’s Pete Hegseth, the incoming Secretary of Defense, who argues that “China’s unchecked rise is the greatest geopolitical threat of the 21st century.” He will be right at the very center of countering China’s influence in the Indo-Pacific region. Pam Bondi, set to lead the Department of Justice, is a long-time ally of the incoming POTUS. Just to emphasize how close she is with Trump, the former Florida Attorney General was part of the former President’s first impeachment trial in 2020. Bondi sees China as a “threat to the US economy”  and has previously supported measures to “hold…

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