BRUSSELS (AP) – The world is fascinated by Donald Trump, just as blindsided as many Americans are about his rise and nearly at a loss to understand what he would do as president.
Foreign-policy elites around the globe speak of Trump as a loose cannon, a “roller-coaster,” ”unpredictable,” ”dangerous” and, perhaps above all, a “mystery.”
But they can’t avert their gaze from a Republican presidential race that turns on the billionaire’s every word.
“Donald Trump makes me laugh a lot,” said Felipe Algorta Brit, a member of the lower house of Uruguay’s parliament. “If he wins the presidency, everybody will cry.”
The handwringing is not universal. Some analysts saw hints in Trump’s foreign policy speech this week that he would take a reasoned approach in office, his out-there instincts curbed by the realities of government. Others think that under Trump, relations with China and Arabs might improve.