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spanone

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Tue Dec 13, 2016, 10:34 AM Dec 2016

terrifying headline: Trump rewrites US foreign policy on the fly

Washington (CNN)Donald Trump is not even President yet, but he's already turning US foreign policy on two of the biggest challenges to American power -- China and Russia -- on its head.

In just five weeks as President-elect, Trump has given the world a taste of what Americans know already after a tumultuous political year: He is unpredictable, doesn't play by the usual rules and will chart an idiosyncratic course.

Nowhere is this clearer than the nascent Trump administration's evolving policy on Russia and China, which is emerging from on-the-fly comments, tweets from the President-elect himself, and a controversial potential pick for secretary of state.

Already, the President-elect appears to be bent on pulling off a full reversal of Obama administration policy towards one historic rival and a rising one.


http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/13/politics/trump-us-foreign-policy-on-the-fly/index.html
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terrifying headline: Trump rewrites US foreign policy on the fly (Original Post) spanone Dec 2016 OP
Trump has no idea what he's doing C_U_L8R Dec 2016 #1
...and he's shooting from the hip. spanone Dec 2016 #2
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