What’s the world to make of Donald Trump’s foreign policy advisers?
Republican presidential nominee’s Asia policy influenced by fierce critic of China
Unlike Hillary Clinton’s star-studded campaign team, analysts seem to have few clues who is advising Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on foreign policy issues.
“We know so little about Trump and, quite frankly, we don’t know very much about the kind of people he would take advice from,” said David Lampton, director of China studies at Johns Hopkins’ school of advanced international studies.
We don’t have any real idea of what their China policy would be
Apparently, it is in part a problem of Trump’s own making.
According to Elizabeth Economy, director of Asia studies at the US-based Council on Foreign Relations, Trump is an unconventional candidate with his own particular way of looking at things.
“Trump has made it clear that he does have a lot of advisers, but he does not need a lot of advisers,” she said. “He is his own best adviser.”
When Trump unveiled little-known members of his foreign policy team early this year, many prominent Republicans and supporters of the real estate billionaire appeared baffled, questioning Trump’s readiness to lead the country in a changing and volatile world.
