12 November 2016

News Story: Washington needs to reset relations with the world

by Liu Chang

BEIJING, Nov. 11 (Xinhua) -- The past 16 years of Washington's conduct abroad seems to have done more harm for the world than good, and now is the right time for Donald Trump, America' s president-elect, to start contemplating a reset of his country's relations with the rest of the globe.

Putting behind him a highly-charged and extremely negative campaign, Trump came to grab the U.S. presidency at a time when the world is at a critical fork in the road.

The global economy is teetering on the precipice of a potential global economic recession. Talks against free trade and globalization are rampant at unprecedented levels. The Middle East is as chaotic as ever.

The Asia-Pacific's economic exuberance and geopolitical stability is being tested. All these writings on the wall have some sort of connection with Washington and its decades of self-serving foreign policy.

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