Far from the master dealmaker he claims to be
Analysis by Nic Robertson, CNN
Updated 11:11 AM ET, Tue May 7, 2019
...Trump has turned his back on plenty of things: The US is leaving the Paris Agreement, out of the Iran nuclear deal, out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and more ...
North Korea has yet to get rid of its nukes, China to cement a new trade deal, Iran to forswear terrorism, Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro to step down, US troops to depart Afghanistan, the Taliban to sue for peace, Saudi Arabia to come clean about journalist Jamal Khashoggi's brutal murder, and the Middle East to catch even a whiff of a peace plan.
Trump's confident, possibly calculated bully bluster -- threatening first, then climbing down later -- has produced little proof that he is the master dealmaker he claims to be.
Indeed, the opposite may be true; his repeated reversals have revealed him to be a diplomatic novice, outsmarted in the international arena by more experienced rivals ...
https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/07/world/trump-foreign-policy-robertson-analysis-intl/index.html
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