US president Donald Trump is seen in China as a "gift" for closer EU
relations and for tipping the "geo-strategic balance" of power toward
Asia.
That is the feeling in Beijing and beyond, according to Alicia Garcia-Herrero, a Hong Kong-based economist from the Bruegel think tank in Belgium, who co-wrote a new study on how to unlock tens of billions of euros in China-EU investment and trade.
"Last year, my children, who go to school in China, didn't know why so many of their classmates wanted Trump to win the [US] elections, but it was because even normal Chinese families understood the implications. He [Trump] just looked so dumb and so creepy," she told EUobserver on Tuesday (12 September).
"Trump is the greatest gift that we [the West] could have given to China", she said.
Garcia-Herrero spoke amid a Chinese push to develop closer economic and diplomatic ties with the EU.
Read more: Trump is 'gift' for China's EU agenda
That is the feeling in Beijing and beyond, according to Alicia Garcia-Herrero, a Hong Kong-based economist from the Bruegel think tank in Belgium, who co-wrote a new study on how to unlock tens of billions of euros in China-EU investment and trade.
"Last year, my children, who go to school in China, didn't know why so many of their classmates wanted Trump to win the [US] elections, but it was because even normal Chinese families understood the implications. He [Trump] just looked so dumb and so creepy," she told EUobserver on Tuesday (12 September).
"Trump is the greatest gift that we [the West] could have given to China", she said.
Garcia-Herrero spoke amid a Chinese push to develop closer economic and diplomatic ties with the EU.
Read more: Trump is 'gift' for China's EU agenda
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