Economics
U.S. Insists Europe Is Following Trump’s Lead. Cue Awkward Silence
- ‘We have a real problem,’ says head of Munich security meeting
- Delegates launch efforts to reinforce shared western values
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At the close of this year’s annual gathering of the transatlantic security community in Munich Sunday, its organizer Wolfgang Ischinger –- a former German ambassador to the U.S. -- offered a bleak conclusion: “We have a real problem.’’
The nature of that problem was on display throughout the three-day event: The U.S. is at odds with not only its great power rivals Russia and China, but also with its allies in Europe and elements of the international system that Washington itself was largely responsible for building.