Trump risks driving Europe into China's embrace. Xi Jinping will be delighted | Orville Schell

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : Trump now expects the same servile loyalty from those who surround him.
52% : After all, like Trump, he is by nature a retaliatory leader.
48% : China's special representative to the EU optimistically described Trump's treatment of Europeans as so "appalling" that it was likely to make them more willing to recognise Beijing's approach to "peace, friendship, goodwill and win-win cooperation".
47% : Reflecting on Mao's style of leadership shows just how different Xi really is from Trump.
45% : Mao, like Trump, loved chaos as well as control, and acted impulsively to keep everyone off-balance with his unpredictability.
43% : But Europe should be wary of its advances How does Xi Jinping view the circus Donald Trump is ring-mastering in Washington?
41% : Now Trump has rallied his own version of Red Guards, the Proud Boys and other vigilante groups who are bent on attacking the so-called deep state, defying lawmakers and supporting the president in his efforts to overturn the established order.
36% : The Cultural Revolution made Xi deeply allergic to the kind of disorder Mao unleashed and that Trump is now inflicting on the US.
32% : " If anything, Trump is a far more Maoist leader than Xi.
29% : Trump may have thrown the geopolitical chessboard on the floor, and Beijing may be attempting to sell itself as a more reasonable global "anchor", but there is a profound contradiction between democracy and autocracy, and between Europe and the People's Republic of China.
26% : That said, Chinese leaders still find Trump hard to read.

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