(2) Things might get slightly better after the US (gerrymandered) 2026 elections, but one cannot define a foreign policy and a security architecture for the long haul subject the the vagaries of the political cycles tormenting the American public or the sheer lunacy of the clownish White House.

I hope he is banned for life from entering Schengen Europe.

3-One of the main areas of doubt is whether countries that launch economic warfare at each other are going to be able to maintain reasonable people to people relationships when each country's popularity sinks lower among the otherçs mass public.

2- It is entirely unclear whether any of these assumptions will hold under Trump II.
I find it hard to believe that public opinion support for China in the United States will rise after January 2025 if Trump does indeed roll out sorts of actions that he trumpeted in his campaign.

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