Given Donald Trump's triumphant performance on Super Tuesday and the increasingly likely prospect that his Long March to defeat the Republican Party establishment will succeed, it is high time to think about the Trump effect on China.
Millions of Chinese are watching the spectacle, including the roughly 2½ million citizens of the People's Republic of China living in the United States, but also millions more both at home and abroad. No doubt with some bemusement they are asking, "So this is democracy?"
Given the xenophobic populism that has become the hallmark of the Trump campaign, one must wonder how a similar mindset would play out in China.