Trump believes in ‘zero sum world’

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President-elect Donald Trump believes that a zero-sum world of power politics is more helpful for US interests, former Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Daniel Fried says.   #Trump #PanamaCanal

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00:00threatening Canada, making it the 51st state of the United States.

00:05I mean, what's your overall reading of this approach to foreign policy?

00:10What's the plan? Is there a plan?

00:12I have two levels of answer.

00:14On one level, this is President-elect Trump trolling

00:20and making himself the centre of attention

00:23and throwing things out and watching people scramble.

00:27You know, it's designed to gain some tactical advantage,

00:31to throw other countries off their game,

00:34and to create confusion and an atmosphere of intimidation

00:38to see what he can get.

00:40At a deeper level, Donald Trump seems to believe

00:45that a zero-sum world of power politics in perpetuity

00:51is better for American interests.

00:53I don't think so.

00:55I think that the genius of American strategy

00:59was that we would actually work with other countries,

01:02not because we were naive or not because we believed in charity,

01:06but because we believed that this would allow us

01:10to advance our interests more effectively.

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