Among the many disorienting upheavals in global trade and international relations since U.S. President Donald Trump’s first inauguration on Jan. 20, 2017, there is a single dominant trend line: the expansion and consolidation of the global reach of the People’s Republic of China, and the decline of the United States as the lodestar of the world’s democracies. Read More

It’s a peculiar, rarely acknowledged but readily measurable effect of the pugnacious truculence President Donald Trump has adopted in his treatment of the United States’ traditional friends, allies and trading partners. The American abandonment of principled global leadership is lowering the bar for competent and disciplined statesmanship in democratic states almost everywhere. Read More

“‘Unhinged & UnChristian’: Global outrage erupts after Trump attacks Pope, poses as Jesus.” That’s a headline that you wouldn’t be surprised to find in any of the more liberal American news platforms at the moment. And it wouldn’t be what President Donald Trump likes to call fake news, either. Read More