Foreign policy of Donald Trump

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Jon Huntsman: ‘Stakes are high’ for US-China relationship

Foreign policy

Former US Ambassador Jon Huntsman speaks with The World’s Marco Werman about the deterioration of relations between China and the US. 

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Nicholas Burns: US’ ‘unusual’ absence from world stage is bad for Americans

Global Politics
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Trump wants NATO more involved in the Middle East. What does Europe want?

Military
A woman stands next to a monument to a border guard with a dog, with buildings of Chinese border city Heihe seen in the background across the Amur River, in Blagoveshchensk, in Amur region, Russia, on December 1, 2019.

Russia-China pipeline shows growing alliance in reaction to US foreign policy

Energy
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Bolton was odd choice for Trump’s foreign policy team

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Former defense secretary: US could end up in ‘unintentional’ war in Iran

Military

Former Secretary of Defense Ash Carter says the US and President Trump don’t want a war in Iran. But the two countries could find themselves in an “unintentional conflict.”

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‘I think it caught everyone by surprise’: Former Mexican ambassador to the US reacts to Trump’s latest tariff threats

Politics

President Donald Trump has stated his intention to raise tariffs by 5% on Mexican imports. This move risks hurting businesses, trade negotiations and political relationships between the two countries.

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Without proper intel vetting, could the US be headed toward ‘rushed war’ in the Middle East?

Foreign policy

Suzanne Maloney, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, discusses what intelligence the Trump administration has received about the threat from Iran in the wake of the administration’s partial evacuation orders for the US embassy in Iraq.

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Trump gave his first State of the Union a year ago. Where is US foreign policy today?

Politics

The State of the Union is the president’s opportunity to lay out his own agenda for the year. Here’s what Trump said last year and what actually happened.

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Expert: ‘Cautiously optimistic’ about possible peace deal with North Korea

US Intelligence officials told senators on Tuesday that North Korea is not disarming it’s nuclear program, despite President Trump’s statements to the contrary. But one expert says the prospects of war is no longer a “serious possibility.”