POLITICS● LOWAug 24 · Aug 24, 2026, 12:30 PM
China’s view of Trump’s America has changed from alarm to a shrug
South China Morning Post
There is no shortage of Western commentary on US President Donald Trump’s second term. What’s missing is an honest account of how 1.4 billion of us in China see it – or at least how China’s officials and scholars do, since that’s who I can speak for here. I’ve spent a decade watching that view change, from real alarm in 2017 to something closer to a shrug today. Four things now count as consensus among Chinese scholars. One, Trump is undermining America’s alliance system. His first term rattled...
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