“They thought Trump 2.0 was going to be more transactional, possibly more pragmatic, so maybe a more stable relationship. It is not turning out that way at all.”
Andrea Ghiselli (T.wai & University of Exeter) is quoted in the article “US strikes on Iran force China to reconsider Donald Trump’s isolationism” on the Financial Times.
Research Fellow
Andrea Ghiselli is a non-resident Research Fellow at T.wai, and serves as the Head of Research of the ChinaMed Project. He is also a Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Exeter.
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