Trump's mainstream picks for top foreign policy posts could...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : Trump piled tariffs on China in his first term and promises more tariffs in his next one.
42% : Shen Dingli, a Shanghai-based international relations expert, noted the gap between Trump and his nominees on China.
40% : Trump named Pete Hegseth, a Fox News host untested on the global stage, as defense secretary.
39% : Trump on Wednesday announced his choice of Sen. Marco Rubio for secretary of state.
26% : But both are fairly mainstream conservatives with foreign policy experience who have previously differed with Trump on Russia, NATO and other issues.
22% : While Trump has alarmed U.S. allies in Europe with his criticism of the NATO military alliance and praise of Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose war on Ukraine has galvanized European fears of Russian expansionism, Rubio was instrumental in the Senate in securing the U.S. position in NATO.
22% : Rubio, like Trump, has increasingly stressed the need to end the war.
5% : Robert Manning, a China expert at the Stimson Center, said Trump is not as ideologically driven as Rubio but he raised concerns that Trump's foreign policy could be more disruptive than President Joe Biden's.

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