Trump is building a new liberal world order, says Pompeo

US secretary of state praises president whose bonfire of treaties has alarmed Europe Donald Trump is building a “new liberal order” under U... thumbnail 1 summary

US secretary of state praises president whose bonfire of treaties has alarmed Europe

Donald Trump is building a “new liberal order” under US leadership, based on the principle of putting national sovereignty before multilateralism for its own sake, his secretary of state has claimed.

In a speech in Brussels before a Nato ministers meeting, Mike Pompeo sought to frame Trump’s foreign policy decisions as a coherent doctrine to a European audience that is increasingly anxious about US withdrawal from a string of treaties and Trump’s antipathy towards the European Union.

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