Donald Trump’s ‘unpredictable’ foreign policy is already here
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Donald Trump’s ‘unpredictable’ foreign policy is already here

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Washington: More than six weeks before his inauguration, President-elect Donald Trump is already carrying out his promise to make US foreign policy less predictable with a series of moves that are keeping America’s adversaries, as well as its friends, off-balance. We have to be unpredictable, and we have to be unpredictable starting now.” Vice President-elect Mike Pence said world leaders already are finding Trump’s candor a refreshing change from timidity in US foreign policy. “There’s a great sense of enthusiasm and optimism around the world, because they’re encountering in President-elect Donald Trump a strong leader with broad shoulders who’s going to advance America’s interests,” Pence said on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday. “But he is also going to be engaging the world on behalf of America.” ‘Timid State Department’ Trump adviser and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich was similarly unapologetic when asked about Trump’s phone call with the Taiwanese leader. Gingrich said the “old, timid State Department” would have advised against taking the call from Taiwan’s president, adding, “We elected him not to listen to the current State Department.” Indeed, the State Department said it hasn’t been asked by Trump’s team to provide the traditional briefings that would normally be a part of discussions between a president-elect and foreign powers.

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