Opinion | What I Learned Most From My Trip to China

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : Chinese relate to Trump because he thinks that economics is everything.
60% : As David Daokui Li, the director of the Center for China in the World Economy at Tsinghua University and the author of "China's World View," pointed out to me: "Many people in China feel they understand Trump.
50% : The ideology it promotes is a combination of state-directed capitalism and wild cowboy capitalism, where scores of private and state-owned companies slug it out in survival-of-the-fittest contests across a range of high-tech industries to grow China's middle class.
49% : For his ambassador to China, Trump has picked David Perdue, who was a senator from Georgia from 2015 to 2021.
40% : That brings me back to why it was right for Trump to try to break the mold and invite Xi to Washington.
32% : Even though Trump is often depicted in China as a China basher and "Tariff man," I was struck by how many Chinese economic experts I spoke to suggested that China preferred dealing with him over Democrats.
31% : Trump is unpredictable enough to try it.
19% : If I were Trump, I'd explore a "Nixon goes to China" move -- a rapprochement between the U.S. and China that totally isolates Russia and Iran.

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