Foreign leaders look beyond Trump on his Asian meeting spree
Politico's Phelim Kine reports that as President Trump travels to Manila and Shenzhen for the East Asia Summit and APEC, foreign leaders view him as weakened by the Republicans' midterm losses and will court him in public while looking past him. Diplomats plan to lobby the incoming Democratic Congress on tariffs, Ukraine, and his war powers, with some hoping to quietly wait him out.
