China straps in for 'mercurial' Trump's second term

China can buckle in for another four years of tariffs, tensions and tough talk under a second Donald Trump presidency, experts told AFP -- though they said the billionaire's openness to deals could play in Beijing's favour. "The thing that the Chinese have learned about Trump is that he would say a lot of things... because he's so mercurial, he won't exactly follow through on all these threats," Hoo Tiang Boon, an associate professor at Nanyang Technological University, said. "He's actually open to negotiation, but yet, at the same time, he's prone to extremes." "Trump prides himself on making deals and on personal relationships with other leaders," Benjamin Ho at the China programme at Singapore's RSIS said. "He will try to squeeze China on areas where he can and is likely to adopt an American first policy."

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