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President Donald Trump’s military actions against Venezuela and Iran are hurting America’s primary geostrategic adversary, China. It is seeing allies removed or degraded, it is getting cut off from nations that supply nearly 17% of its imported oil at deeply subsidized prices, and it is even purportedly watching its military equipment be outclassed by American men and material.