'Transactional' Trump is getting ready to sell out his GOP allies to China: reporter

Members of the Republican Party who are hawkish when it comes to China should be prepared for President-elect Donald Trump to sell them down the river, warns Politico analyst Jonathan Martin.

Writing on X, Martin muses that the current drama over the fate of video app TikTok "is a nice little appetizer for the inevitable Trump-Hill tensions" about the United States' relationship with China.

"He's fine with the app because it was good to him in [the 2024] campaign," Martin observes. "He invited Xi to his inauguration, how unsubtle does he have to be? Trump just wants to do big, beautiful deals with whoever will do them."

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Martin adds that he's "not sure when this will dawn on his party" and then speculates it will be "when he and Xi are strolling together for the cameras along the greatest wall you've ever seen."

Trump during his first term came out in favor of banning TikTok as he argued that the access that the Chinese government had to the app posed a national security risk.

However, Trump did an about-face this year after he perceived that TikTok was beneficial to his 2024 presidential campaign. In fact, the New York Times reports that TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew will be attending Trump's inauguration next week along with X owner Elon Musk and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.