steve benen: Kyodo via AP Images As Trump alienates, China invests in diplomacy, global outreach 12/26/19 11 20 AM By Steve Benen Over the summer, Donald Trump boasted to supporters, We are so respected, you have no idea, according to MSNBC. How our nation has gone so far up in the eyes and the minds of the rest of the world. File photo taken in November 2017 shows U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping attending a welcome ceremony in Beijing. As recently as two weeks ago, after leaders of U.S. allies mocked the American president in an unguarded moment, Trump added, This country is so respected. We were laughed at. And we were not respected four years ago.
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