While Trump rattles world, China basks in limelight

“The U.S. is helping China to increase its global influence. China may suffer economically because of the tariffs, but politically, China is gaining more sympathy and more support from other countries, and not just in the Global South,” said Xinbo Wu, dean of the Institute of International Studies at Fudan University in Shanghai. “We now certainly face less diplomatic pressure than we did under the Biden administration…