Come, come, my good sir! Certainly you can do better than shooting the messenger! It's almost a propagandistic usage to disparage the article on a headline chosen by an editor.

The content of the article reflects a desperate state. Mr Trump most certainly promised (or said promise like things) about stopping Russia's war on Ukraine, lowering prices domestically and bringing peace to the Mideast. Charitably, he's not been able to do these things, and his war of choice on Iran is clearly going poorly. Many of these failures have played into increasing China's global power, and bettering their strategic position. The article merely states the obvious