The New Era Belongs To …

The EU might shut its market to American goods—an economic disaster. At the same time, Trump’s tariffs are pushing China, Japan, and South Korea to unite against us—three countries with a long history of conflict and mistrust. Trump’s message to the world is that the United States is unreliable. We’ll throw our partners under the bus whenever we feel like it. So why would they keep doing business with us?

This isn’t just a problem for this administration. It will affect the next several, because Trump has shown that treaties and international norms can be tossed aside without warning. America’s global leadership has been fading since the George W. Bush years, but Trump sped up that decline. He’s handing the next era to China on a silver platter—and it’s important to understand the long-term damage his actions are causing right now.