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Foreign Policy Live

Assessing Trump’s Early Moves

Foreign Policy Live

Foreign Policy

Politics, News Commentary, News

4601 Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

U.S. President Donald Trump began his second term with rapid-fire proposals ranging from invading Greenland to imposing tariffs on top trading partners. How are these moves being viewed globally? FP Live host Ravi Agrawal is joined by three experts, spanning three continents, to learn more. Nathalie Tocci serves as the director of the Italian think tank Istituto Affari Internazionali. Former Singaporean diplomat Kishore Mahbubani is an author and geopolitical analyst. And Ed Luce is a columnist for the Financial Times. Suggested reading (FP links are paywall-free): Ravi Agrawal: Trump is Ushering In a More Transactional World Emma Ashford and Jennifer Kavanagh: Europe Isn’t Ready for Trump 2.0 Matthew M. Kavanagh and Luis Gil Abinader: Abolishing USAID Is Both Unconstitutional And Disastrous Stephen M. Walt: What IR Theory Predicts About Trump 2.0 Edward Alden: Trump Will Be His Own Trade Czar Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hi, I'm Ravia Grawal, Foreign Policy's editor-in-chief. This is FP Live.

0:41.2

Thank you. Policy's editor-in-chief. This is FP Live. So, believe it or not, it's been just two weeks in change since Donald Trump took office.

0:47.5

And there's been a steady torrent of news.

0:50.6

On Tuesday, the United States issued tariffs on China. Beijing immediately retaliated.

0:57.1

Tariffs on American goods, including coal, liquefied natural gas, crude oil, agriculture.

1:03.4

A day earlier, the same thing nearly happened with Mexico and Canada.

1:07.3

Mexico's president made concessions involving the border.

1:10.4

10,000 soldiers permanently like forever.

1:14.3

With a last-minute deal preventing tariffs that most economists say would have been ruinous

1:19.3

for all sides.

1:20.6

All of this playing out furiously on live TV.

1:24.8

This is a bombshell.

1:26.3

I mean, we're talking about a trade war and that's not idle talk.

1:28.9

You have two countries now saying.

1:30.3

With allies.

1:30.9

Right, with our friends.

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