James Kynge

Trump is focusing more on doing deals and a lot less on American ideals, you know, for the world.

We've left that Reagan-esque type of America as a shining city on the hill, a beacon for mankind, an ideal for global aspirations, the leader of the free world.

All of that rhetoric

Well, and it was a lot more than rhetoric, really.

From Reagan's time until now, it's been followed up with military might and economic muscle.

This is the world that Pax Americana has created.

So if this holds, and that is a big if, then it really is a big change.

And I'm James King.

You're over in Australia, right, Alice?

Absolutely.

It looks so sad from here.

No, I very much agree with you.

I mean, I also seized on the fact that missing is this phrase of great power competition that was very prominent in the national security strategy of the first Trump administration and also President Biden's.

NSS.

I mean, it's a little bit like suddenly the Yankees admitting to mention that they want to beat the Red Sox or in soccer, Real Madrid going soft on Barcelona.

I mean, China was the main competitor, the main strategic adversary to the United States in both

the first Trump and Biden administration, and this Trump administration until now.

So it is certainly a fundamental change.

Whether it's a sustainable long-term pivot, as you've just been talking about, Alice, is much more difficult to say.

If you want my kind of heads-up