It’s crunch time for Trump’s ‘America First’ policy
From China trade tensions to Venezuelan oil and a troop drawdown in Syria, Donald Trump has a busy first quarter of 2019
Washington — US President Donald Trump ended 2018 dramatically by ordering US troops out of Syria and accelerating his defence secretary’s resignation by two months. The first quarter of 2019 looks to be just as tumultuous. From China to Iran, Trump has set a host of deadlines for action that will help reveal if the president is really the global deal-maker he professes to be or a leader who’s leaving the US diminished on the world stage as he boasts of his “America First” foreign policy. “The next several months are pivotal,” Stewart Patrick, director of the International Institutions and Global Governance Programme at the Council on Foreign Relations, said in an interview. “There’s a really crowded international calendar populated by things that have risen to the top of the agenda because of the US administration’s policies in forcing confrontation.” Beyond the change-over at the Pentagon, Trump is going without a UN ambassador — Nikki Haley’s tenure ended last month and the presi...
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