China and US partners are moving closer as Trump returns to the...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

71% : He and others hope that Trump will respond positively to their outreach.
67% : French President Emmanuel Macron, outlining his vision for global diplomacy in a New Year´s speech, declared that his country was "a solid ally" of Trump.
66% : BEIJING (AP) - China's relations are starting to improvewith Japan, India and other countries that former U.S. President Joe Biden courted, just as Donald Trump brings his more unilateralist approach back to the White House.
58% : Trump agreed to a Free and Open Indo-Pacific strategy that Japan introduced during his first term and backed excluding Chinese companies from telecom networks in the U.S. and many of its partners.
54% : And on Tuesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio - hours after he was sworn in - met with the foreign ministers of Australia, India and Japan in Washington, a move that suggested engaging the Quad countries and countering China´s influence will remain a priority for Trump.
48% : Hal Brands, senior fellow at the Washington-based think tank American Enterprise Institute, said he believes some top strategists in Beijing are "salivating at the damage they think Trump is going to do to U.S. alliances and the opportunities this creates for Beijing to resurrect some of its relationships with other advanced democracies - Japan and Europe - that had moved in a very sharply anti-China direction since COVID.
47% : During his first term, Trump didn´t hesitate to challenge traditional U.S. partners.
46% : "It is possible that Trump may drift away from U.S. allies, making them pay more attention to China´s role and in fact it has provided a chance for China´s diplomacy," said Wu Xinbo, dean of the Institute of International Studies at Fudan University in Shanghai.
45% : "But U.S. National Security Council spokesperson Brian Hughes said that Trump "has a record of rallying the world toward a more competitive stance with China."
44% : The government in Beijing has reciprocated in part because it wants foreign investment to help revive its economy, which could be set back if Trump follows through on a threat to impose higher tariffs.
36% : The Philippines complained recently about what it called a "monster" Chinese coast guard ship in nearby waters, and the foreign ministers of Japan and the Philippines said last week they would convey to Trump the urgent need for the U.S. to remain engaged in the region.
35% : Biden kept the tariffs Trump levied on China and imposed more on Chinese electric cars and solar cells.
31% : But unlike Biden, Trump has irked U.S. allies and partners with his recent remarks on possibly annexing Greenland, an autonomous territory of NATO ally Denmark, and making Canada the 51st American state.
30% : "China is unlikely to be a better choice than the U.S., even under Trump, but it is important to find some counterbalance.

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