After US President Donald Trump’s month of scandal, and a week abroad, Brahma Chellaney, Michael Mandelbaum, Ana Palacio, and other Project Syndicate commentators provide insight into the state of America’s global leadership.
Editors’ Insight FRIDAY, MAY 26, 2017Donald Trump’s Flying Circus
With his mounting domestic scandals in tow, Donald Trump spent the past week overseas, on his first foreign trip as US president. Despite the cordial welcome Trump received from America’s allies, it is becoming increasingly clear that US global leadership will suffer under his administration.
Inside the North Korea Maze
US President Donald Trump surely has plenty to worry about at home nowadays. But his administration’s focus on its domestic political problems, together with its lack of a coherent Asia policy, threatens to empower one of the world’s most dangerous regimes and imperil an economically vital – and strategically unstable – region.Read More