With Him On A Personal Level
2020年12月10日 日常Sreeram ChauliaSreeram Chaulia is a professor and Dean of the Jindal School of International Affairs. China’s most despotic leader since Mao Zedong, Xi Jinping, is to Mr Trump “a very good person” because Mr Xi might help the US to pressurise North Korea and also due to the “great chemistry” Mr Trump has developed with him on a personal level.
America is not and has never been a true, universal champion of democracy and human rights.When Mr Trump resumes military aid to Bahrain and Egypt that his predecessor had restricted, increases coordination with Turkey in spite of the latter’s dubious role in the war in Syria, and offers to strengthen the US’ alliance with the Philippines despite Mr Duterte’s extra judicial killing spree, he is consciously or unwittingly forming a club of what he views as non-nonsense leaders who go about ruthlessly achieving their goals. Kim Jong-un of North Korea, the Castros of Cuba, Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela and Bashar al-Assad of Syria directly challenge American interests or do not fit into Mr Trump’s idiosyncratic worldviews and hence do not get the same sympathy from the Trump administration as a Duterte or an el-Sisi. But on the other hand, he does not mind cooperating with an el-Sisi butchering thousands of Egyptians or an Erdogan jailing hundreds of thousands in mass purges.
Analysts have been scratching their heads about Mr Trump’s whimsical foreign policy flip-flops. But the obverse also works, wherein Mr Trump’s own mission to downsize the liberal order in America depends on carving out a new international system based on rejection of free trade, open migration, non-discriminatory treatment of citizens and separation of powers.To his detractors, Mr Trump loves tyrants because he is himself of that mould and dreams of vast power by bypassing or weakening checks and balances to pursue his core objectives without shackles.
In order to sugarcoat this open courtship of problematic regimes, https://www.mould-parts.net/mold-parts/insert-series/ his top diplomats, like the secretary of state Rex Tillerson and his ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, project the conventional line of America as a defender of human rights and democracy.Mr Trump is a continuation of America’s long, deceptive record as an opportunistic power. Understandably so. It is now obvious that there is a choreographed “good cop bad cop” routine in place in the Trump administration.
America is not and has never been a true, universal champion of democracy and human rights.When Mr Trump resumes military aid to Bahrain and Egypt that his predecessor had restricted, increases coordination with Turkey in spite of the latter’s dubious role in the war in Syria, and offers to strengthen the US’ alliance with the Philippines despite Mr Duterte’s extra judicial killing spree, he is consciously or unwittingly forming a club of what he views as non-nonsense leaders who go about ruthlessly achieving their goals. Kim Jong-un of North Korea, the Castros of Cuba, Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela and Bashar al-Assad of Syria directly challenge American interests or do not fit into Mr Trump’s idiosyncratic worldviews and hence do not get the same sympathy from the Trump administration as a Duterte or an el-Sisi. But on the other hand, he does not mind cooperating with an el-Sisi butchering thousands of Egyptians or an Erdogan jailing hundreds of thousands in mass purges.
Analysts have been scratching their heads about Mr Trump’s whimsical foreign policy flip-flops. But the obverse also works, wherein Mr Trump’s own mission to downsize the liberal order in America depends on carving out a new international system based on rejection of free trade, open migration, non-discriminatory treatment of citizens and separation of powers.To his detractors, Mr Trump loves tyrants because he is himself of that mould and dreams of vast power by bypassing or weakening checks and balances to pursue his core objectives without shackles.
In order to sugarcoat this open courtship of problematic regimes, https://www.mould-parts.net/mold-parts/insert-series/ his top diplomats, like the secretary of state Rex Tillerson and his ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, project the conventional line of America as a defender of human rights and democracy.Mr Trump is a continuation of America’s long, deceptive record as an opportunistic power. Understandably so. It is now obvious that there is a choreographed “good cop bad cop” routine in place in the Trump administration.
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