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Foreign Policy Live

Decoding Trump’s Foreign Policy

Foreign Policy Live

Foreign Policy

Politics, News Commentary, News

4601 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

A leading figure in the Trump administration’s national security team, Elbridge Colby, joins FP Live to discuss the Republican nominee’s potential agenda. He argues for a more business-like approach with allies and alliances as well as prioritizing Asia over Europe.  Suggested reading: Transcript: Decoding Trump’s Foreign Policy Stephen M. Walt: The Trump-Vance Unilaterialist Delusion Elbridge Colby and David Ochmanek: How the United States Could Lose a Great-Power War  Elbridge Colby: How to Win America’s Next War Transcript: How Singapore Manages U.S.-China Tensions Transcript: Is Canada Free-Riding on Defense? Elbridge Colby: The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:40.9

Welcome to the show.

0:42.7

It has been a busy, newsy couple of weeks in the race for the White House.

0:47.3

All of a sudden, there is immense energy behind Kamala Harris

0:51.3

as the new presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party.

0:55.6

With Joe Biden now officially a lame duck president, change is in the air.

1:01.3

But here's one thing that has not changed.

1:03.5

There is still a reasonable chance, maybe a more than even chance,

1:07.5

that Donald Trump will be the next president of the United States. And so it remains

1:12.3

very much worth trying to figure out what his foreign policy might look like. Now, Trump says a lot of

1:19.4

things, and who knows if he will actually do as he says? It's hard to find the signal in the noise

1:25.7

of his often scattergun pronouncements.

1:28.7

It's a guessing game.

1:30.1

But I thought it would be useful today to speak to someone whose views on Ukraine and China

1:34.7

have really made a mark in Washington, and especially in Trump's orbit.

1:40.7

Over the last year or so, a chorus of Republican lawmakers have been making the point that

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