, Columnist
China Must Be Pulling for Four More Years of Trump
Even if it doesn’t help his re-election, it has reasons to want it.
President Donald Trump and China's President Xi Jinping may want the same thing.
Photographer: NICOLAS ASFOURI/AFP/Getty Images
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Imagine you’re running a very large nation and that the president of a very large rival nation is constantly imposing tariffs on your country and accusing you of ripping off and undermining his. Then, out of the blue at a summit one day, he asks you to help him win re-election. Would you: