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Donald Trump s presidency not just a blip in US foreign policy
US allies aren’t blind to the large constituency of American voters who continue to support outgoing President Donald Trump’s nationalist tendencies and his belief that the United States should stay out of world conflicts. Associated Press January 16, 2021 / 01:03 PM IST
US President-elect Joe Biden leaves after speaking at an event at The Queen theater, on January 15, 2021, in Wilmington, Delaware. (Image: AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
President-elect Joe Biden’s plan to scrap President Donald Trump’s vision of “America First” in favor of “diplomacy first” will depend on whether he s able to regain the trust of allies and convince them that Trumpism is just a blip in the annals of U.S. foreign policy.
The race is between three men: Armin Laschet, the minister-president of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany s most populous state; Norbert Roettgen, a former environment minister with a foreign policy background; and Friedrich Merz, a one-time arch rival of Merkel who left politics to work for private firms including asset manager BlackRock. He is by far the most conservative of the contenders. There s a real disconnect between the importance of this contest and the attention that has been paid to it, says Marcel Dirsus, a non-resident fellow at Kiel University s Institute for Security Policy. He wonders whether more people in Europe might be able to name the two Democratic candidates who recently won Senate runoffs in the US state of Georgia than the men vying to lead the CDU.
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Polls coming out of Scotland indicate a significant surge in pro-independence feeling, with surveys in the latter half of 2020 consistently putting a Yes vote ahead. The Scottish First Minister said late last year that she would aim to secure a vote in 2021. Nicola Sturgeon said in November: We are seeing across the Atlantic, what happens to those who try to hold back the tide of democracy. They get swept away. The point about whether the Westminster Government has to a