AS Donald Trump assumes the 47th US presidency for the next four years, every nation on earth is trying to imagine what kind of world order this mercurial president can deliver.
An insightful piece by Bilahari Kausikan, former permanent secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Singapore , in the current issue of Foreign Affairs invites a cautious reading of Trump 's transactional foreign policy as it impacts global security and world trade.
The Kausikan article recalls that in 2015, Chinese President Xi Jinping stood next to US President Barack Obama at the White House and promised 'not to militarize' the South China Sea. But this was precisely what he did one year later, and the US did nothing about it. Since then, it's been the Philippine Coast Guard, rather than the US Seventh Fleet, that has had to deal with the problem. What Trump will do in the South China Sea appears, for now, a matter of pure speculation.
Kind Of World Order Can Donald Trump Deliver?
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