World leaders trying to find a path forward with the US President should remember he has also shown disdain for “core liberal values”, says foreign policy guru Jake Sullivan, a former key aide for Clinton and Obama.
“The idea alliances are obsolete is a basic instinct of Trump’s that lines up with the argument China has been pushing for years,” Mr Sullivan told the Lowy Institute in Sydney during his lecture on American Strategy in the Asia Pacific on Tuesday night.
“He fundamentally rejects what has been at the core of US foreign policy, that the US agenda can be advanced at same time as others. He thinks if someone else is doing well, they’re taking us for a ride.
“The erosion of alliances is in my view a brutal blow to American leadership.
We should be doubling down on our alliances, using them to face the challenges of the 21st Century.”
Mr Sullivan said that such an attitude was a “cause for alarm”, and placed “more demand and strain” on vital institutions including NATO and could damage America’s relationships in the Asia Pacific to the extent that allies “come to believe they can’t trust” the US.
Source: Donald Trump believes ‘alliances are obsolete’
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