Trump alliances

China has little to gain and everything to lose by altering the world's current geopolitical trajectory.

The Trump administration appears to have inherited the mantle of being “pro-U.S.-Japan alliance” from two establishment figures whose class the president publicly disparages.

Australia’s reliance on the U.S. has only grown deeper since 2000. But that may be about to change. 

Ironically, Trump’s approach to international relations is playing the game of his proclaimed main enemy: Xi Jinping’s China.

U.S. military aid and strategic support for Taiwan are being reshaped. What will that mean for arms sales, military assistance, and strategic commitments?

Thus far, Australian leaders seem unable to address the implications of the fact that U.S. values and interests may in fact no longer be congruent with Australia’s own.

Japan and South Korea are at their most fragile political states in decades – just as Trump’s return to the White House disrupts an already-changing global order.

Insights from Tiberio Graziani.

The U.S. alliance network is its greatest advantage in the competition with China. But Washington can hardly count on its allies if it treats them worse than the way it treats its systemic rival.

From transatlantic alliances to the Western Hemisphere, Trump is forcing a rethink of conventional assumptions as great power competition heats up.

Even if a strategic and comprehensive alliance can be made a reality, the big question is how to make that happen amid the uncertainty of the Trump era.

The strongest lesson to be drawn from Trump’s time in the Oval Office is that he has the ability to subvert predictions.