“China is the real winner”: Americans’ new views on Ukraine are seen as positive by Western leaders.

Allies around the world aren’t sure if they can still trust the U.S. since President Trump has said nice things about Russia but bad things about Ukraine.

In less than two weeks, President Trump has changed the way the United States has always played a part in the world.

Monday at the UN, in the same hall where U.S. diplomats have fought Russian peers for decades on behalf of the “free world,” Washington’s envoy voted against a resolution condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, along with Moscow’s.

The vote came after a week in which President Trump seemed to side with Russia against Ukraine. He said he would discuss a peace deal without Ukraine present and blamed Kyiv for starting the war that Russian President Vladimir Putin started three years ago with a full-scale invasion.

European governments and democracies around the world see Trump’s actions and words not as a way to stir up trouble, but as an earthquake.
According to James Bindenagel, a former senior U.S. diplomat who worked in Germany for many years, the policies of this government are a giant step forward.

Current and past Western diplomats told NBC News that European and other democratic governments are getting used to the fact that the U.S. is no longer a trusted ally after Trump’s move toward Russia, threats of tariffs against NATO allies, and talk of buying Greenland.

Another chance for China
Some European countries and other countries may look for new partners and markets, maybe in China, now that they don’t trust the United States. What Bindenagel said.

“People’s lack of trust in the United States leaves a void that is likely to be filled by cooperation between Moscow, Beijing, Pyongyang, and Iran,” said Bindenagel, a retired professor at the University of Bonn.

He said, “China is the real winner here” because Trump’s move away from Europe gives Beijing a chance to try to bring Europe closer to itself.

There is a chance that China and Russia could grow their areas of influence in the Asia-Pacific region, Africa, and Eastern Europe if the Trump administration keeps upsetting its allies and calling its alliances into question. Michael Green, CEO of the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, said that shocked officials in countries that support the US are trying to figure out what the change in Washington means.

Green, who was on the White House National Security Council under George W. Bush, said, “It’s not an exaggeration to say that this scared even our closest allies in Asia.”

Green says that the aggressive dismantling by the Trump administration of the U.S. agency in charge of foreign help has had effects on other countries. The chaos in Washington makes it hard for U.S. embassies to do their jobs, and funding for democracy projects has dried up, which could be good for China, he said.

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