From high tariffs to isolation, what a 2nd Trump term might mean for foreign policy
From high tariffs to isolation, what a 2nd Trump term might mean for foreign policy DAVE DAVIES, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. MINTON BEDDOES: The point that we were trying to make is that for the past 80 years, really since World War II, and since the United States led the creation of a new world order after World War II - and that was a world order defined by alliances, by international rules, by free trade, with the U.S. at the center of it - that world order, I think, is now fundamentally coming to an end with the reelection of Donald Trump, because Donald Trump doesn't really believe in alliances. DAVIES: This is FRESH AIR, and we're speaking with Zanny Minton Beddoes, editor-in-chief of The Economist, about what Trump's foreign policy might look like in a second term and what foreign leaders are anticipating. MINTON BEDDOES: So I think the glib way of saying this is that the direction Donald Trump's Middle East policy takes depends on which of his sons-in-law he talks to first. And I think it's worth remembering one thing - that in the first Trump administration, particularly on foreign policy, everyone thought that it was kind of going to be a cataclysmic catastrophe, disaster.
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