In notes for a speech given today in India, the former Prime Minister is says that Donald Trump’s presidency is a major source of international uncertainty that will “reverse” seven decades of U.S. foreign policy. “Under Trump, the United States will cease to view the rise of China as benign,” Harper said. “It is more profoundly concerned that the massive trade imbalance means America is financing the rise of a geopolitical adversary.” That view is more in step with U.S. public opinion “which has always been skeptical of the foreign policy and corporate consensus that China is more an opportunity than a threat,” he added. The new president will be inaugurated tomorrow in Washington amid pomp, protest and security. Full story by Canadian Press
