Obama Administration Gives Up on Pacific Trade Deal
The &quot;world order&quot; will look very different by the time Trump leaves office. He wants to cede more of the Middle East to Russia, reduce our participation and leadership in NATO, reduce our military presence in South Korea and Japan, and cancel or renegotiate trade deals, including the TPP.<p>The result will be a world that is more clearly apportioned among 3-4 major powers. Small Asian countries, if they can&#x27;t get a feeling of solid support from the U.S., will eventually ally themselves with China. And the EU and Russia will battle (hopefully not openly) over the lands between and near them.<p>It&#x27;s essentially the end of &quot;pax Americana&quot;. I think it&#x27;s incredibly short-sighted. Trump looks at international relations as a quarterly balance sheet but almost certainly does not properly account for the value of the stability the U.S. provides throughout the world now.