Indepth examinations of global issues, featuring interviews and roundtable discussions. Enemies. Now after meeting with jeanclaude, he says the eu and u. S. Obviously love one another. Seemingly bizarre sbun predictable behavior is part of a canny and wise strategy, that hes playing a fourdimensional chess, operating in space time. If so, hes getting badly beaten here on earth. In none of these situations has he actually been able to extract real concessions and there is a cost to this bluster and flip flopping. Trump is creating a reputation for the United States as erratic, unpredictable, unreliable and fundamentally hostile to the global order. Leader after leader in europe has made this clear. George osbourne told me when he was britains finance minister, you knew the United States president had your back. The most tangible data
suggesting that the United States is losing its good reputation comes from The Economist adam poser. He argues that countries are bypassing the United Stat
The most tangible data suggesting that the United States is losing its good reputation comes from The Economist adam poser. He argues that countries are bypassing the United States and constructing a postamerican world economy. You can see this in the flurry of Trade Agreements that dont include the u. S. , from the transpacific partnership, which was signed minus america to the trade deal the European Union just signed with japan and many others that are in the works. The most dramatic indication of the world side stepping the u. S. , he says, is the decline in Foreign Investment in america. It has fallen off a cliff, he told me. Net Foreign Investment into the u. S. Has dropped by half since 2016. Perhaps some of the decline is part of a longer term trend. Other countries are growing faster than the u. S. But for decades, that reality has been countered by another reality. That among the worlds rich nations, america was unique in having strong Growth Prospects coupled with stable,
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world and has a good deal to say what happens on the strait of hormuz, through which a huge amount of the world s exports flow. so those of us who live a long way away, it is important. we re still militarily stressed whether in afghanistan, iraq, south korea, germany, that we don t have the resources to rebuild a country like iraq, much less a place like syria, which will have to be reconstructed at some point. and the idea of reconstructing another war zone is very daunting. so, whether it s just the collapse of the regime because of its inefficiencies, the opposition within or some kind of military campaign, plan b, what happens next, is a very unclear and in some ways the most frightening aspect of this issue. when we come back, we ll ask, what is actually happening inside iran? is the regime getting weaker or is all this pressure emboldening it?
asia. it is one of the most geostrategic properties in the world and has a good deal to say what happens on the strait of hormuz, through which a huge amount of the world s exports flow. so those of us who live a long way away, it is important. we re still militarily stressed whether in afghanistan, iraq, south korea, germany, that we don t have the resources to rebuild a country like iraq, much less a place like syria, which will have to be reconstructed at some point. and the idea of reconstructing another war zone is very daunting. so, whether it s just the collapse of the regime because of its inefficiencies, the opposition within or some kind of military campaign, plan b, what happens next, is a very unclear and in some ways the most frightening aspect of this issue. when we come back, we ll ask, what is actually happening inside iran? is the regime getting weaker or