1.Echoes of US President Donald Trump's bluster and wholly undiplomatic conduct in the debacle that was this week's presidential debate can be found in the US'hardline policy push on China.This week saw both Portugal and the Vatican publicly reject US arm-twisting to choose between it and China.Pope Francis'refusal to meet with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo followed a tweet by Pompeo claiming that a Vatican agreement on church operations in China"endangers its moral authority."The US ambassador to Portugal's threat of consequences if Portugal opted to work with China over the US on 5G networks prompted the foreign minister to remind Washington that"In Portugal the decisionmakers are the Portuguese authorities."
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