And our current policies are pushing nations towards China. Nations are allowing Chinese bases into their countries because we abandoned those nations. Now the EU and Canada, our allies, are viewing China as more reliable than we are. That's a problem, and entirely self-inflicted.

Superficially. What the US media doesn't report but what sophisticated observers of world events should note is that there is an endemic weakness among G7 leaders: they've imported a population that doesn't want to assimilate, they've made disastrous decisions with their industrial sectors and energy production capabilities and now they're scrambling to find ways to prop themselves up with cheap goods imported from China and the Golden Promise (which will never be realized) of access to China's massive market. All these leaders like Carney are trying to buy themselves electoral time and see in Trump an easy layup in terms of Blaming Somebody Else for their own bad decisions. In this case it's "Blame Trump for overthrowing the rules-based-international-order"...that gave rise to a resurgent, aggressive and utterly ruthless China in the first place.

'Pushing countries to align with China' isn't thought through. Ask serious Aussies or Japanese what they think of China and see what answer you get; they know exactly who and what's coming for them in a few years.