One of the biggest concerns experts have about President Trump’s foreign policy is that by alienating key allies like Germany, it offers China and Russia an opportunity to divide Europe from the U.S. Yet while trans-Atlantic tensions have worsened since 2016 and public opinion in key European countries has turned sharply against the president, there are few signs Russia or China are effectively capitalizing on the moment.
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Walter Russell Mead: Russia and China wield dull wedges
Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) and Chinese President Xi Jinping (R) look at ice creams before the fifth regular foreign ministers' meeting of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Dushanbe on June 15, 2019.
