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Europe is abandoning Trump on the world stage as it turns away from the US toward China
Adam Bienkov
https://www.businessinsider.com/europe-abandoning-donald-trump-coronavirus-world-stage-turns-towards-china-2020-5
3 hours ago


President Donald Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic has triggered global criticism.
 
•   Recent polling suggests Europeans are turning away from the US under President Donald Trump's leadership.

•   Public opinion toward America has declined in major European countries since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.

•   Seventy-six percent of Germans in a new poll said their view of America had deteriorated because of the crisis.

•   Roughly equal numbers of Germans in the poll favored maintaining close relationships with China and the US in a head-to-head matchup.

•   One poll last week found that just 2% of French people trusted Trump to provide world leadership.

•   China is exerting growing political, diplomatic, and financial power across Europe.

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The poll found:

•   Germans were largely split when asked whether they favored maintaining close relations with China or the US.

•   37% of Germans said it was more important to maintain close relations with the US, compared to 36% who said the same of China.

•   That was a big drop from a poll last year, when 50% of Germans said maintaining US relations was the priority, compared with just 24% who said China.

•   In a separate question, just 10% of Germans saw the US as the country's most important global partner, down from 19% last year. Six percent said the same of China, down 1 percentage point from the year before.

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