Mallen Baker: Faultlines

China and Germany Manage Trump Like A Toddler


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We got a surprise today, when it was suddenly announced that China's President Xi Jinping and President Trump had spoken directly on the phone. And then it was the turn of Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merz to play the game of 'spin the Oval Office wheel'. Would he get ambushed, or treated with respect? And what difference would it make that both men had been playing hardball in recent weeks and months with the US administration? Well, the other world leaders have been playing close attention, so let's discuss what they've been seeing.

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