FILE PHOTO: Wolfgang Ischinger, chairman of the Munich Security Conference, during Reuters interview in Berlin, Germany, May 15, 2017. Picture taken May 15, 2017. REUTERS/Reinhard Krause/File Photo
BERLIN (Reuters) - The longer Donald Trump stays in office, the higher the risk that anti-American forces will gain the upper hand in Germany and push it into the arms of Russia and China, veteran German diplomat Wolfgang Ischinger said in an interview.
The chairman of the Munich Security Conference and former ambassador to Washington was speaking to Reuters days before the publication of his book "World in Danger", in which he urges Germans not to giving up on the United States because of Trump, while also pressing them to accept more global responsibility.
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