Trump is destroying global trust in the US  

President Trump’s tariff policy is shredding global trust in the U.S. and risks driving friends and allies closer into China’s orbit.  

Many of the tariffs imposed by Trump breach U.S. treaty-based trade agreements. This has called into question the value of all U.S. treaty commitments, including those relating to national defense. As a result, U.S. friends from Australia to Japan to Canada are being forced to reassess the extent they can rely on America. For those countries that confront...