Wang Jisi is Founding President of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies, Peking University, China.
Hu Ran is a research associate at the Institute of International and Strategic Studies, Peking University.
Zhao Jianwei is a research associate at the Institute of International and Strategic Studies, Peking University.
Over the past few weeks, the upheavals in the U.S. presidential election season have drawn enormous global attention. Even before the summer began, countries were weighing the implications of former President Donald Trump’s return to the White House and, conversely, what a second term for U.S. President Joe Biden might bring. To many countries, these two possibilities presented markedly different prospects for geopolitics and for the future role of the United States in world affairs.
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Then came nine remarkable days in July, during which Trump was almost assassinated and Biden abruptly announced that he