Poll: Major allies think it's better to depend on China than on the US under Trump

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8. Politico must not be talking to the same Germans and French that I talk to

I live in Germany, am in France once a week, and speak both German and French.

Obviously, just about everyone I talk to hates Trump, and feels that the USA has become unreliable under his regime. But they also maintain a deeply seated mistrust of China, and since their leaders tend to be dictators for life with an unambiguous ambition toward taking Taiwan and ultimate (long-term) world domination, the Europeans know that if we end up with poor leadership (Cheney, Trump, e.g.), it is temporary (Bannon notwithstanding). The EU loved Clinton, Obama and Biden. There has been no Chinese—or Russian—leader about whom they felt that way in the last 40 years.