The second Trump administration’s poor treatment of US allies and global institutions is providing “an opportunity” for China’s president, former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said, adding that Canberra needed to try to adopt a more independent defense policy as Washington grows more unreliable.

US President Donald Trump may meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in April, according to the South China Morning Post. As the outlet’s sources reported, Trump could visit China as early as next month,

Malcolm Turnbull said Trump’s erratic behaviour towards allies creates an opportunity for China’s Xi Jinping, who presents a more consistent and respectful alternative.

In President Donald Trump’s idealized framing, the United States was at its zenith in the 1890s. The Republican has said repeatedly, “We were at our richest from 1870 to 1913.

In President Donald Trump's idealized framing, the United States was at its zenith in the 1890s, when top hats and shirtwaists were fashionable and typhoid fever often killed more soldiers than combat.

The desire to recreate the Gilded Age is fueled by Trump’s fondness for tariffs. It’s also why he praises the nation’s 25th president, William McKinley, a Republican who was in office from 1897 until being assassinated in 1901.