U.S. foreign policy in Trump's first two years: 'Our country is respected again'

Record ID: 1372107

  • Title: U.S. foreign policy in Trump's first two years: 'Our country is respected again'
  • Date: 7th December 2018
  • Summary: BEIJING, CHINA (FILE - APRIL 3, 2018) (REUTERS) (SOUNDBITE) (Mandarin) CHINA'S FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOKESMAN GENG SHUANG, SAYING: "(China imposing of tariffs on U.S. goods) is to balance China's losses caused by Section 232 (of the 1962 U.S. Trade Expansion Act). Everyone should be clear, the tariffs are in response to Section 232 rather than the Section 301 probe. We have mentioned for a long time that China will not provoke a trade war and is unwilling to fight a trade war. But we are not afraid of trade war. If anyone insists (a trade war) and even fights at our door, we will resolutely fight, and fight to the end."
  • Embargoed: 21st December 2018 18:31
  • Keywords: tariffs UK COP24 Brexit sanctions trade war Nuclear Netanyahu Rouhani nuclear deal Theresa May Russia EU Iran Republicans Emmanuel Macron Xi Jingpin China Trump alliances Iran leader Jerusalem Xi Macron detention center global warming Guatemala. Honduras Saudi Arabia foreign policy Congress Caravan Vladimir Putin Chinese president G20 climate change Ali Khamenei North Korea immigrants Mexico foreign relations
  • Location: VARIOUS LOCATIONS
  • City: VARIOUS LOCATIONS
  • Country: USA
  • Topics: Diplomacy/Foreign Policy,Government/Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA01899YXNPJ
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: EDITORS NOTE: FOR EXTENSIVE FILE VIDEO OF TRUMP'S DOMESTIC AGENDA, PLEASE SEE EDIT 0425-USA-ELECTION/TRUMP-DOMESTIC POLICY
    FOREIGN POLICY CONTINUES IN EDIT: 0426-USA-TRUMP/FOREIGN POLICY PART 1
    Donald Trump assumed the office of the President of the United States with a pledge to "make America great again."
    Half-way through his first term, Trump claims that task has been accomplished, telling audiences at any of his frequent political pep rallies that "our country is respected again all over the world".
    But, in the arena of U.S. foreign policy, whether Trump has engineered a solidification of America's position in the world, or whether he has weakened America's status as the pre-eminent global economic, military, and moral force, is a question that is sharply debated within America's fractious politics.
    Few dispute, however, that whatever Donald Trump is doing in his foreign policy, it is unlike the way any previous U.S. president operated on the global stage.
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