US states can oppose Trump`s `America First` |
The Trump administration`s often rejectionist `America First` approach to the rest of the world has given a new urgency for federal states and big cities in the US to strengthen ties with foreign governments, on issues like tackling climate change. Here is a `problem without borders` that can`t be addressed without cooperation from the US, which remains the second largest emitter of greenhouse gasses after China. A new study from Pew Research offers unsurprising news that many countries have a low opinion of Donald Trump. This survey of 37 countries found the percentage of those with confidence in the United States president has fallen from 64% at the end of the Obama presidency to just 22% under Trump. Some 62% says Trump is “dangerous”, and 74% have “no confidence” in him. Fewer than one in three support his bid to block citizens of some majority-Muslim countries from entering the US. Fewer than one in five approve of his trade and climate policies. The fall is steepest among some close US allies. From 2015 to 2017, the percentage of those with “confidence in the US president to do the right thing regarding world affairs” fell from 66 to 24% in Japan, 76 to 22% in Canada, 83 to 14% in France, and 73 to 11% in Germany. The US is still the only country that can extend political, economic, and military influence into every region of the world.
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