PNN – “Foreign Policy” magazine has evaluated and predicted a series of predictable policies of his team in foreign relations with other countries, according to the records of Trump and his advisers.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network, citing Foreign Policy, former US President Donald Trump’s victory in the elections is the beginning of another rollercoaster (horror train) in US foreign policy. The president-elect is poised to bring back his first-term hallmarks: a trade war with China, a deep skepticism — even hostility — toward multilateralism, a fondness for powerful people, an iconoclastic style, and more.
Trump has promised to end the war in Ukraine before it even begins, but he has yet to come up with the slightest plan to do so. His plans for peace in the Middle East are equally ambiguous.
According to the records of Trump and his advisers, Foreign Policy has set an example of a series of predictable policies in foreign relations for America.
As for China, Trump will certainly act more aggressively. In Trump’s second term, China will probably be presented as the main challenge to American national security. As in his first term in office, Trump has focused primarily on trade. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal in October, Trump said that “tariff” is “the most beautiful word in the dictionary” and that his clearest priority on China is to restart the trade war he started in 2018.
Trump’s campaign website calls for the US to end its reliance on China for all essential goods. But this is just the beginning. Biden kept Trump’s initial tariffs, but Trump himself is ready to go much further. With promised tariffs of at least 60 percent on all imports from China, Trump will move closer to the complete separation of the world’s two largest economies, which is supported by some of his closest advisers.
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Such a move would worsen bilateral relations, cost American households thousands of dollars a year and cost American exporters one of their largest markets. But the negative effects of an aggressive trade policy towards China will also end up weakening other potential US friends and allies.
If Israel’s wars with Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon are not fully resolved before Trump takes office, which seems unlikely, one of the most pressing foreign policy issues on his desk will be the escalation of tensions in the Middle East. Trump spoke about the need to end the war in Gaza and claimed to have told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to claim victory because the killing must stop.
It is unclear what role the next government will play in trying to end the war. Trump has criticized the Biden team’s call for a truce, describing it as an attempt to “tie Israel’s hand behind its back” and saying that a truce would only give Hamas time to reorganize.
During his first term as president, Trump verbally supported the two-state solution to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and at the same time awarded Israel a series of diplomatic awards, such as moving the US embassy to Jerusalem.
America and Israel had warm relations during the first term of Trump’s presidency, but when Netanyahu congratulated Biden on his victory, Trump’s personal relations with Israeli officials deteriorated. His tone toward Israel has also been sometimes critical in recent months, with Trump warning in April that the country was “losing the propaganda war” in Gaza.
Regarding Europe and NATO, the same old words should be repeated. Trump has criticized US financial aid to Ukraine’s war effort and has called on Europe to shoulder more of the burden of supporting Kiev. He called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “the biggest salesman on earth” and said he felt bad for him. Trump has expressed doubt that Ukraine can defeat Russia.
Trump has claimed that negotiations to end the Russia-Ukraine war will take just 24 hours, and he will do so before his inauguration in January. But details on how he plans to end the war are scant.
NATO’s relations with America during the Trump era will not be as warm as before, and Trump has even sometimes encouraged Russia to do whatever it can.
From Russia’s perspective, a second Trump presidency may pave the way for friendlier relations between Washington and Moscow, as the Kremlin has long favored the Republican leader over his Democratic opponents. However, even the Russians are skeptical of Trump’s promises to end the conflict immediately. Trump has spoken to Putin seven times in the last four years.