(CNN) — Donald Trump has just won a
shocking election victory against Hillary Clinton.
He won against all odds. Yet that was the easy
part. Now comes the hard part: governing a
deeply divided nation. There will be no easy
options.
Trump will have to make some painful choices,
especially in regard to policy in Asia. His
instinct will be to take a hawkish stance against
America's No. 1 geopolitical competitor, China,
and to look for opportunities to trip China up.
For example, he could continue to call out
China over the South China Sea issue. He told
The New York Times in March that he finds
China's building and reclamation activities there
"so brazen, and it's so terrible that they would
do that without any consultation." On the
economic side, he could double down on his
plan to "instruct my treasury secretary to label
China a currency manipulator " and to "instruct
the US trade representative to bring trade cases
against China, both in this country and at the
WTO ." He has also warned that China would
"enter the TPP through the back door ... if we
don't stop it ."
However, America's No. 1 priority has to be
economic growth. The only way to meet the
expectations of the millions who voted for
Trump is to deliver a booming economy with
jobs growing. One easy way to do it would be
to unleash a surge in infrastructure spending.
Having been a builder all his life, Trump, of all
people, should understand the importance of
infrastructure. He has promised that under his
leadership, America "will build the next
generation of roads, bridges, railways, tunnels,
seaports and airports that our country deserves.
American cars will travel the roads, American
planes will connect our cities, and American
ships will patrol the seas. American steel will
send new skyscrapers soaring. We will put new
American metal into the spine of this nation."
But a fiscally challenged America will not be
able to unleash massive infrastructure spending.
America needs a strong economic partner to
achieve this. And the current infrastructure-
building superpower is China. As Trump has
noted , "You know, they've made so much
economic progress because of the United States.
And in the meantime we're becoming a Third
World nation. You look at our airports, you
look at our roadways, you look at our bridges



source : http://edition.cnn.com/2016/11/10/opinions/why-america-needs-to-partner-with-china-mahbubani/index.html

Ah don't be like buhari ooh campaigning after electtion.

Promises aint polices. Mr Trump no too make mouth" Actions speaks louder than voice" that what I heard.