March 2, 2017

"The shocking election of Donald Trump as US president confirms a suspicion numerous American experts themselves have had over the past several years: rather than being the stable anchor of the global system, the US has now become a variable, even a cause of volatility. This was one theory that was devised by the US National Intelligence Council in its recently published Global Trends 2030 report, for which I was an advisor. The future has arrived more quickly than anyone expected.

Trump has set his sights on upending one of the most important geopolitical relationships, namely between the US and China. His reductionist populism posits China and Mexico as both geopolitically and economically hostile: Mexico a source of violent drug traffickers and gangsters that steals American jobs in growing numbers since the NAFTA trade agreement, and China a military aggressor that has also stolen millions of American jobs since its entry into the WTO. There is little or no room in his worldview for a mutually beneficial globalization."

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