LOGICALLY,CHINESEcommunists should be good at spotting revolutionaries. In reality, officials in Beijing are as clueless as anyone when it comes to the most urgent question in world politics. Namely, is the second coming of President Donald Trump a ruder, rougher version of the first? Or is he now an out-and-out radical—willing to break any principle and abandon any ally to advance the national interest, as he sees it?
This article appeared in the International section of the print edition under the headline “Is Donald Trump a revolutionary, or just rude?”
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