A Paradoxical 似非而是 Essay About Trump and Xi's Coming Face-Off

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Tony Keller, Make America Great Again meets Make China Great Again. Globe and Mail, Dec 21, 2016.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/o ... in/article33393571/

Note:
(a) paradoxical is an adjective. The noun is
paradox (n): "a statement that is seemingly contradictory or opposed to common sense and yet is perhaps true"
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/paradox

(b) Tony Keller is a columnist for Globe and Mail and Toronto Star.
(A) The German surname Keller is "from Middle High German kellaere 'cellarman,' 'cellar master' (Latin cellarius, denoting the keeper of the cella 'store chamber,' 'pantry'). Hence an occupational name for the overseer of the stores, accounts, or household in general in, for example, a monastery or castle. Kellers were important as trusted stewards in a great household, and in some cases were promoted to ministerial rank. The surname is widespread throughout central Europe.:
Dictionary of American Family Names, by Oxford Univ Press.
(B) Latin-English dictionary:
* cella (noun ffeminine)
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cella
(C) Helen Keller had the same last name.

(c) "He's [Trump's] more interested in proving to his constituents that, unlike that wimp Mr Obama, he doesn't care about the sensitivities of the second-most-powerful country on Earth. #MAGA!"
(i)
(A) sensitivity (n): "the quality or state of being sensitive: as * * *
d :  the capacity of being easily hurt"
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sensitivity
(B) sensitivity (n):
"1. [mass noun] The quality or condition of being sensitive  <a total lack of common decency and sensitivity>
1.1 (sensitivities) feelings liable to be offended or hurt; sensibilities <the only rules that matter are practical ones that respect local sensitivities>"
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/sensitivity
(ii) "#MAGA" (without the exclamation mark) is a Twitter hashtag for "Make America Great Again."

(d) "Like the last gasp of the European land grab, the so-called Scramble for Africa before the First World War, it’s mostly about impressing the folks at home."

Scramble for Africa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scramble_for_Africa
(The Berlin Conference of 1884, which regulated European colonization and trade in Africa, is usually referred to as the starting point of the scramble for Africa)