Looking Back on 2017: Rising Powers Review Trump’s First Year

Policy Alert #157 | January 30, 2018

The release of the Trump administration’s National Security Strategy (NSS) at the end of 2017, the publication of an expose of the inner-workings of the Trump White House ahead of the anniversary of his inauguration, and startling results from a Gallup survey on global support of US leadership left columnists and policy experts abroad with plenty of food for thought as they ruminated on the US president’s performance in 2017 and how their governments should respond. In this RPI Policy Alert, we survey the Rising Powers’ report cards for Donald Trump’s first year in office.

 

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JAPAN

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RUSSIA

 

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