Is Trump A Chinese Agent?

Trump has an obvious relationship with the nation that helped him win the US presidency.  Russia's economy is based on selling oil and gas to the rest of the world.  Trump has aligned himself with the fossil fuel industry in the US.  He is taking steps to protect the value of fossil fuel reserves held by Russian and US firms.  He claims that his actions will even revive the coal industry which is unable to compete with cheap gas.  Tom Friedman argues that Trump is making a bad bet.  He got in bed with Russia but he has put China in the position of leading the world toward the future.  It has assumed the  position as the architect of trade policy in Asia because Trump made a campaign promise to withdraw from a trade agreement that would have put the US trade architecture in a position to shape the terms of trade in Asia.  Trump's embrace of the fossil fuel industry has also allowed China to assume the leadership position in the clean energy industries which are producing more jobs than the fossil fuel industry.  Moreover, his "America First" campaign has led to a decline in one of our most valuable imports.  We are attracting fewer of the brightest scientists to our shores as a result.  The most progressive state in the US is California.  Trump was crushed in California for a good reason.  It represents the future more than the red states and small towns that fell in love with Trump's story of a glorious past. Making "America First", on Trump's terms,  is a blueprint for enabling China to assume our place in the future according to Tom Friedman.