Xi must be loving how Trump is remaking the US in China’s image

Traditional Russian wooden dolls depicting China’s President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump are on display in a souvenir shop in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Nov. 21, 2024 © Reuters

William Pesek is an award-winning Tokyo-based journalist and author of “Japanization: What the World Can Learn from Japan’s Lost Decades.”