Donald Trump’s victory is a tectonic global event that will reshape both the international political system and international economic arrangement, according to experts. Here is what it may mean for the world...
UKRAINE | Trump is not likely to extend America’s support to Ukraine in terms of military and economic resources before knowing the endgame. And the endgame, for Trump’s ecosystem, is peace based on territorial concessions by Ukraine and security guarantees by Russia.
ISRAEL | Trump’s long-term priority in West Asia will be getting the Israel-Saudi Arabia normalization deal done. He will take a strong hawkish position against Iran. In the short term, he is likely to back Benjamin Netanyahu and his far-Right allies.
CHINA | Trump will be unpredictable in China. He is likely to take a strongly adversarial position on trade and impose the tariffs he has promised. He will continue to make an issue of how China stole away American manufacturing jobs and will not be forgiven for it.
EUROPE | Trump has a simple proposition for Europeans: Mind your own security. This may mean ramping up their defense budgets, which they are doing, or relying less on the American security umbrella, or conducting their own bilateral deals with whichever partner they want to.
