U.S. policy changes under Trump

What will a Trump administration do to U.S. relations with India, China, Russia and Pakistan?

  • Better relations with India

    Votes: 7 87.5%
  • Better relations with Russia

    Votes: 7 87.5%
  • Worse relations with China

    Votes: 5 62.5%
  • Worse relations with Pakistan

    Votes: 5 62.5%
  • Better relations with China

    Votes: 1 12.5%
  • Better relations with Pakistan

    Votes: 1 12.5%
  • Worse relations with India

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Worse relations with Russia

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    8

Adioz

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Its barely been a month since he got elected, Trump is already making waves with his phone call to Taiwanese President, threats of withdrawing from TPP, etc. As U.S. looks inwards under Trump, we watch how his ideas (and his administrations support or opposition of these ideas) changes U.S. foreign, economic and military policies.
 

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Trump’s ‘ignorant’ chat with Sharif may be unwelcome to India: Forbes
His bluster is more likely to be taken as the initial signal of his administration’s position. When he goes on and on about how wonderful Pakistan is, and how strong is his friendship, it matters. It matters that he uses words like: very good reputation, amazing work...fantastic country, fantastic place, fantastic people
It shows he is unaware.
One of the main messages it sends, is that he shows no awareness of the issues between the United States, Pakistan, and India.
 

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Trump's call inspires hope in Taiwan, concern in Beijing
With a 10-minute phone call and two tweets, Donald Trump inspired banner headlines and renewed hopes across Taiwan for a stronger partnership with the United States, while also inflaming the complex relationships between the U.S., mainland China, and the self-governing island China regards as a renegade province.

Whether the U.S. president-elect meant to jump into the generational fight between China and Taiwan remains an open question. But by speaking to Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, Trump upended four decades of American foreign policy and engaged China directly on the issue of Taiwan, which Beijing has threatened to reclaim by force if necessary. No American president or president-elect has publicly spoken to Taiwan's leader since the U.S. ended their formal diplomatic relationship in 1979.

Four of his words drew particular attention in Taiwanese newspapers: Trump's reference, in a follow-up tweet, to Tsai being "the President of Taiwan."

The phrase is far from benign for China, which regards any reference to a Taiwanese president as an unacceptable acknowledgement of Taiwan's statehood. Official Chinese pronouncements typically refer to the Taiwanese president as "the Taiwan regional leader."
 

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Thanks to Trump, China is poised to dominate
This has been a very good month for Xi Jinping. The Chinese president appointed a new finance minister, who immediately began a crackdown on the hidden incomes of the country’s superrich. He struck a deal in which Facebook agreed to censor its content.

And most importantly, on Nov. 8, Mr. Xi learned that his country was about to become unchallenged as the economic leader of at least half the world’s people.

The election of Donald Trump could not have been better news for the economic and political ambitions of China. Suddenly, across most of Asia, Africa and much of South America and Europe, all economic, energy, diplomatic and non-metaphorical infrastructure roads lead to Beijing.

Or so it seems. For countries like Canada with carefully negotiated links to both superpowers, this is a delicate moment requiring considerable care. The U.S. retreat has the potential to make China considerably more important and more influential internationally, but also more controversial to be engaged with politically, even if the gains are considerable.

And it’s happening now: The world order has shifted even before the presidency has changed. Mr. Trump’s announcement this week that on his first day in office he will “withdraw from” the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the huge and not-yet-ratified trade and investment deal between the Americas and Asia (but not with China), was one of the least surprising things he has done. The letters TPP have become a little more than an easily-spat curse among protectionist Republicans and Democrats, seen widely as a corporate sop that offers little to working people.

Politically, walking away from the deal is almost cost-free for Americans. Economically, the United States was projected to gain only slightly in growth and jobs as a result of the deal, as was Canada. On the other hand, the people of Japan and Southeast Asian countries such as Vietnam and Malaysia were gambling their futures on it: The TPP promised to improve the lives of hundreds of millions of people in the eastern hemisphere by clearing a tariff-clogged pathway between the world’s largest economies. Without it, they are solely dependent on China.

The response has been almost immediate: Days after the U.S. election, countries lept into action to make deals with China. Vietnam, Malaysia, Chile and Peru announced last week that they would turn away from the U.S.-led deal and instead work on joining China’s 16-country trade bloc, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership – a less stringent pact that affects three billion people. Australia announced plans to tighten its pacts with China, Japan, India and Southeast Asia (but not the U.S.).

And Beijing is preparing to step into the vacuum with an unprecedented bid to build a world economy around itself. China’s “One Belt, One Road” infrastructure-investment strategy resembles nothing so much as the Marshall Plan pursued by the United States after the Second World War. Chinese-led institutions, including the newly created Infrastructure Investment Bank, have pledged to spend $1.2-trillion in 60 countries to create railway lines, oil and gas pipelines, highways and major ports to link China with central and Southeast Asia, Russia, parts of Europe, and potentially much of Africa.

On top of that, China this week pledged to take over leadership of climate-change reduction and green-energy infrastructure if the U.S. follows Mr. Trump’s pledge to walk away from the Paris Agreement, potentially making it a post-fossil-energy superpower.

For countries like Canada, there are great opportunities to take advantage of this situation financially – but these carry serious political risks. The suggestion that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau used ties to Chinese businessmen to attract donations to his late father’s foundation – even if they prove to be innocent of conflict – create an image, not just at home but across the eastern hemisphere, that Canada is willing to betray its principles to gain from this geopolitical disaster.

The Prime Minister, quite reasonably, wants Canada to become less solely dependent on a much more volatile United States. But the power vacuum in Asia is a tragedy, not a victory: Japan and Southeast Asia aren’t eagerly rushing to China; they’re abandoned by the U.S. and fear a dominant, increasingly authoritarian superpower. If we aren’t careful, Canada will look like part of the problem.
 

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934. Trump, Bush and the return of Tony Blair(11/23/2016)

The president election of 2016 is similar to the 2000 one. Both were rigged to escort the puppets of the Feds to take the president seat. I say so because both happened under the term of Democrat's regime and the economy are pretty well too. In 2000, Bill Clinton left with a rare budget surplus for next president. Barak Obama has having a nice employment rate - 5%. There is hardly a reason to change the ruling party. Yet the Feds have other purpose and they control the election, So we saw the controversial events. To create unreasonable victory of the campaign, they had to make it a tied one. Bush won the election on the controversial Florida votes which depended on the decision of Supreme Court. Trump won a controversial election which caused countrywide protests, the Feds later have to say Hillary Clinton won popular votes to comfort people. They manipulate the voting number at their convenience.

They did so because they had big plan plotted already. The two election also got everything ready for the puppet president to carry out their mission. That is the full control of the Senate and the House. The plan would pass easily in legislative - both controlled by Republican Party. Now we know for Bush's job it was war in Mid-East and 9/11 attack. What will it be for Donald Trump? Here is a news when Trump is interviewing the candidate of his cabinet.

Eurosceptics welcome Tony Blair's political comeback and Brexit intervention

Laura Hughes 21 NOVEMBER 2016

Tony Blair’s plan to make a comeback to political life by spearheading an anti-Brexit group was last night welcomed by Eurosceptics who said it would increase public support for leaving the EU.



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...-tony-blairs-political-comeback-and-brexit-i/
Tony Blair is notorious for his role in Iraq war. Does this mean there will be another war- on Syria, or on Iran? Or another style of war- to split Euro zone?

When they say it's those "low educated white people" who lost their jobs voted Trump to his president seat, do you feel the conflict of that this is the time of full employment (5% unemployment rate)?

Stand high to see these two president elections (2000, 2016) with the return of Tony Blair, you may see how the Feds manipulate the election to chose politicians to control this world.
 

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