All eyes on Trump's vision for USA at GOP convention

This week's Republican presidential nomination convention, which runs from Monday to Thursday, takes place amidst a sea of major international events from the UK's Brexit vote to the Nice terrorist attack, and the failed Turkish military coup. Especially given the current state of world affairs, it is therefore not just many US voters, but also people right across the globe, who are focusing intensely on the Republican convention which is the first official showcasing of the party's presidential ticket: billionaire businessman Donald Trump and Indiana Governor Mike Pence.

Indeed, given the policy differences between Mr Trump and his Democratic counterpart Hilary Clinton, it is likely that the global focus on this year's conventions and wider race could be even higher than 2012 when, according to a Pew Global Attitudes Project report, more than a third of populations in countries as diverse as the UK, Germany, Jordan, Lebanon, China, India, and Japan were either "closely or somewhat closely" following the campaign.

Foreign scrutiny is particularly strongly on Mr Trump given that he is generally less well known, internationally, than Mrs Clinton who has been a significant US figure since 1992, when her husband, Bill, won the presidency. Moreover, many international audiences have also been shocked by Mr Trump and his sometimes polarising rhetoric, from his proposed clampdown on Muslim immigration to the US, to his views on the favourability of nuclear war on the Korean peninsula.