Economics
It’s Crunch Time for Trump’s ‘America First’ Policy
- President vowed action from China trade to Russian missiles
- ‘The next several months are pivotal’: analyst Stewart Patrick
Source: U.S. Army
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Donald Trump ended 2018 dramatically by ordering U.S. troops out of Syria and accelerating his defense secretary’s resignation by two months. The first quarter of 2019 looks to be just as tumultuous.
From China to Iran, Trump has set a host of deadlines for action that will help reveal if the president is really the global deal-maker he professes to be or a leader who’s leaving the U.S. diminished on the world stage as he boasts of his “America First” foreign policy.