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“Speak loudly and carry a small stick:” Trump’s foreign policy year in review

Worldly

Vox Media Podcast Network

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.41.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2017

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Yochi, Jenn, and Zack bid a fond farewell to 2017 by looking at what Donald Trump's first year in office says about his approach to the presidency and how he's likely to handle Iran, North Korea, and China in the future. The biggest takeaway is that Trump's words often have little to do with his actions, and that his threats rarely lead to concrete action. The gulf between Trump's rhetoric and his actual policies has confused the leaders of both US allies and US adversaries, raising the risk of a dangerous miscalculation with a country like North Korea. Jenn ends the year with by deftly using the word "braggadocious," Zack literally phones it in from Canada, and Yochi gives a shoutout to the aid workers risking their lives to make the world a better place. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Worldly, Fox's Weekly Guide to the most important stories in the world,

0:11.6

part of the Fox Media Podcast network.

0:14.0

It's Yoki here with Jen in studio.

0:16.0

Hey.

0:17.0

Zach, who is in Canada, we assume eating poutine and waving to Moose.

0:20.0

Well, currently I'm just drinking coffee, but yes all of the stereotypes.

0:23.8

So this is our last episode of 2017, so we're going to zoom out a bit.

0:28.0

Year one of the Trump presidency has made one thing very clear, which that the president has a pretty strong

0:32.2

belief about foreign policy.

0:33.4

Let me tell you, the one that matters is me. I'm the only one that matters because when it comes to it

0:38.5

that's what the policy is going to be. You've seen that you've seen it strongly.

0:41.8

So to a rather unprecedented

0:43.8

degree that's true. And we're going to dive into what that means for three of the

0:47.3

biggest stories in the world, for Iran, for North Korea, and China. But before we do,

0:50.9

let's start broad. I mean, Jen, what does that tell you about sort of the single sentence

0:55.2

Trump view of foreign policy, or as we see it, the single sentence

0:58.5

summary of how we see Trump foreign policy?

1:00.5

Yeah, so I think, you know, looking back, it's pretty clear that the Trump doctrine is speak

1:05.6

loudly and carry a small stick.

1:07.9

So I think you've seen him kind of pounding his chest and, you know, threatening to do all

1:12.1

these big, you know, to do all these big you know serious things like

1:14.4

tear up the Iran deal or you know really get tough on China and crack down on China

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