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By Ankit Panda
Trump would pivot away from Asia and make Asia pay for it.
As the front-runner for the U.S. Republican Party’s presidential nomination in the 2016 general election, Donald Trump’s views on foreign policy deserve serious attention. Fortunately, in the past few weeks, more than a few reporters have given us just that. Over at Politico, Thomas Wright outlined the consistency in Trump’s thinking about the world–a consistency that suggests that his bombastic rhetoric on the campaign trail isn’t just for show. It reflects a deeply held belief about the world and how the United States simply gets a raw deal regularly.
Meanwhile, at Bloomberg View, Josh Rogin reveals the “Trump Doctrine,” outlining a range of advisers who have consulted for Trump and the principles undergirding his would-be foreign policy should he become president. (Also, over at the Washington Post, in a post that’s probably only 30 percent trolling, Dan Drezner suggests Trump may represent something like the apotheosis of arealist foreign policy candidate.)
There’s a lot to be written about the bad, the worse, and the ugly in Trump’s conception of foreign policy, but the takeaway that should be of interest to readers here at The Diplomat is that if you thought the United States’ pivot to Asia has been sluggish, wait until to you see Trump’s Pivot from Asia. It’ll be real classy.
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