What the world should expect from a second Trump term
Admirers and enemies alike are forever reading grand visions into a man with an almost touchingly banal, dollars-and-cents worldview. And the China-US relationship may benefit from this.
A decade has passed since Barack Obama failed to enforce his “red line” against the use of chemical weapons in Syria. But a US president made good on that commitment in the end.
Who, upon the election of Donald Trump, thought he would be the one to hit Bashar al-Assad’s air force with cruise missiles on a point of principle?
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Financial Times
Janan Ganesh is the principal political columnist for the Financial Times.
