The Philippines’ top diplomat to the United States expressed confidence Monday that President Donald Trump’s new administration would continue military patrols in the disputed South China Sea and move ahead with an agreed expansion of the U.

China’s top diplomat presented the country as a force for stability, as Donald Trump shakes up the world economy with tariffs and rattles allies with overtures to Russia.

Donald Trump, once more, is moving to slash imports from China. Just like in his first term, the returning U.S. president wants to decouple from the world’s second-largest economy and establish self-sufficiency in key strategic sectors.