As particulars emerged from the indictment charging former President Donald J. Trump with mishandling labeled paperwork, international response ranged from strategic silence to unbridled outrage, with room in between for world-weary shrugs, wild conspiracy theories and ominous predictions of American decline.
China’s propaganda machine, which might usually leap on a U.S. scandal, stayed quiet. Russian commentators referred to as the fees a faux manufacturing of the “deep state.” And amongst American…
