Imagine that representatives of Canada, New Zealand, Austria, Finland, and Portugal expressed an interest in meeting with the president of Mexico, in hopes of improving economic and political ties. Wouldn't it be smart for the president to meet with those people? In fact, wouldn't it be political malpractice to refuse such a meeting — and then to go on TV and publicly denounce their representatives as evil, as some commentators have suggested he do with Trump? Of course it would. So why would it be smart to insult someone likely to carry states that make up a similar share of the global economy?
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