Reasons to Be Optimistic About a Post-American Order
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/opinion/west-american-order-free-trade.html
There are good reasons for pessimism about the future — a world in which China, Russia and Mr. Trump’s America carve out spheres of influence and control through leverage and fear. But chaos will not inevitably follow the end of the American order. That fear is partly based on two errors: First, the past seven decades or so have not been as good for everyone on the planet as they have been for the West. And secondly, the very precepts of order are not Western inventions.
That’s a reason for optimism. To understand that the American order is not the only possible system — that, for many countries, it is not even a particularly good or fair one — is to allow oneself to hope that its end could augur a more inclusive world.
Trump Is Trashing America’s Reputation
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-is-trashing-americas-global-good-name-foreign-policy-tariffs-trade-economy-b2d63350
His foreign policy is doing irreversible damage to the greatest geopolitical brand ever created.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/opinion/west-american-order-free-trade.html
There are good reasons for pessimism about the future — a world in which China, Russia and Mr. Trump’s America carve out spheres of influence and control through leverage and fear. But chaos will not inevitably follow the end of the American order. That fear is partly based on two errors: First, the past seven decades or so have not been as good for everyone on the planet as they have been for the West. And secondly, the very precepts of order are not Western inventions.
That’s a reason for optimism. To understand that the American order is not the only possible system — that, for many countries, it is not even a particularly good or fair one — is to allow oneself to hope that its end could augur a more inclusive world.
Trump Is Trashing America’s Reputation
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-is-trashing-americas-global-good-name-foreign-policy-tariffs-trade-economy-b2d63350
His foreign policy is doing irreversible damage to the greatest geopolitical brand ever created.