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Trump wants the United States, not China, to define and control the technical standards of the global economy: in finance, telecommunications, space, robotics, bioengineering, nanotechnologies, and manufacturing methods. That means full-spectrum rivalry with China. If economic control is not possible, Trump’s plan B is global economic separation from China. For him to achieve these goals, there are three key front lines: Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Taiwan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eTurbulence\u003c\/em\u003e, Clinton Fernandes explores the forces at work in each of these front lines and the implications for Australia. Trump wants to create an illiberal order of reactionary states with undemocratic political systems committed to weakening non-Western international associations that seek a more democratic order. 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