So Trump has already started messing up big time relationships with Mexico

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KingofTrolls said:

1. Not at all. They are actually more a competitors ( lets say one milk producer is leaving a milk buyer and try to sell its milk to another milk producers ) than partners. Brazil accounts only for >2% of Mexico trade and there is a reason for it.

I think the point you missed is that... Mexico can start having stonger economic ties with other nations like Brazil in the face of decreasing ties with the US, not that they currently do.

KingofTrolls said:

2. Yes, Austrialia is slowly entering China's sphere of influence ( 1st buyer of coal if we count China+Taiwan as one country ) and that's natural and very good, wise process. China is simply more reliable than US now. If not that 2008 crisis, China will be a biggest employer in US already.

Australia was already in that sphere of influence, have been for over a decade, now we are slowly backing away from it with better ties to the general Asia region.

The US backing out of the TPP did place a spanner in the works, but the current thinking is... That we might continue forward with it anyway, without the US.
Australia is in a position to be the "Food Bowl" of Asia, which could be worth Trillions.