Washington – If foreign leaders learned anything about Donald Trump's presidency, they may be better in America's enemy than her boyfriend.
To date, Trump insulted Canada, played a ball with Denmark on the future of Greenland and Colombia Colombia to restore immigrants who are not documented on his conditions and threatened to threaten the channel that bears a name from Panama, which is a source of great national pride.
We are all allies or partners in varying degrees. Panama's Ministry of Foreign Affairs website is a democratic “partner” that works with the United States on “common interests”.
The US embassy site in Colombia included reports of the Counternarcotics strategy invented by the two countries – or at least they did during the chairmanship of Joe Biden. Web pages are no longer available on the site.
Canada fought alongside the United States in Afghanistan and nurtured it and included passengers of airlines who were unable To stand alone. He said on the social media platform, the state must become 51.
Separately, Trump imposed a 25 % tariff on another American ally and a neighbor, Mexico, and a 10 % customs tariff order on imports from a global competitor in America, China.
“It is more difficult in the younger countries that the United States has very good relations,” said Leslie Venjameuri, director of the Americas Program in Chatham House, a London -based research group. Colombia is a very strong partner for the United States in Latin America. Canada and Mexico are also close partners. They are not a special. The bats swing when you don't even need to do so. America has already has the upper hand. “
Taking a difficult position with the US smaller and supportive countries may seem a low -risk proposal for Trump. Nothing wants to suffer from great power. There are no nuclear missiles targeting American cities.
But there are risks on the Trump brand of diplomacy, says national security analysts and former officials. Countries may rethink their relations with the United States and adopt an eager address with billions of dollars: China.
“Colombia is one of ten countries with important strategic relations with the United States, which is increasingly heavy in its relations with China and Russia,” said a former National Security Administration in the Biden Administration, who was given anonymity to speak frankly. “This will explain to them that the United States is the type of partner that pulls this —. You will see as a result of Colombia saying yes and kissing Trump in its public messages and then opened the door for strategic competitors to the United States because they do not consider the United States reliable.”
As Trump's defenders see this, the Americans want a record leader who does not allow the country to decline.
It is no longer anything less than the “Golden Age” for the Americans, and if it can expand the impact of the country around the world, enhance wealth and gain more cooperation in the sclerosis of borders, he can leave the office with a subordinate heritage.
Richard said: “At some point, you need to clarify your opponents and allies who take you as a foregone and benefit from you that those days (have ended) – that the American superpower has returned and that the giant's sleep has woke up.” Goldberg, who served in the White House National Security Council during the first period of Trump.
Vice President JD Vance defended Trump's behavior on Sunday on X.
Vans wrote: “Get to me the story of sigh about how Canada” is our best friend. “Our country?
The negative aspect of that argument is that it may bear global discontent.
NBC News recently noticed that the Banmunites display national flags in a challenge to threaten the seizure of the channel.
Raul Mulino, Panama President, met with the weekend with Foreign Minister Marco Rubio, who traveled to the country on his first foreign visit.
Rubio told the Panamanian leader that Trump is concerned about the Chinese influence on the channel, according to a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
After meeting with Rubio, Molino told the correspondents that the talks with Rubio were “respectable” and “positive” and did not see “any real threat against the Treaty of (Panama Channel) and its statement,” according to Associated Press.
In a step, the White House National Security Adviser, Mike Waltz, described a “step in the right direction,” Mulino said his country would end an agreement with China to participate in the infrastructure program called “Belt and Road”. “
In the last year of Biden's state in his post, the Pew Research Center has informed that among the 34 countries surveyed, the majority had favorable views of the United States. On the contrary, Pio wrote in 2021 that “all over the presidency of Donald Trump, the public has held the United States into account, as it opposes most of its foreign policies.”
“See, there is a problem with (Trump), and he has large numbers of countries that deepened and expanded their relations with China over the course of the decade and a half. The United States.” So this type is From the doctrine of Frank Sinatra – my road or highway – many of these countries will throw deeper into China. “
Early signs indicate that China is looking to take advantage of any diplomatic rift.
An American source said that the Panama government rejected requests from Chinese officials to meet them. But after Trump threatened to take the channel, Panama changed the path and agreed to meet the Chinese.
On January 26, two hours after Trump's threat of Colombia in definitions, a ban on travel and other sanctions unless citizens who were deported from the United States accepted, the Chinese Ambassador to Colombia published his own message.
Zhu Jingyang wrote in Spanish that China and Colombia have the “best moment” for more than four decades of diplomatic relations.
“You have the Chinese ambassador trying to take advantage of the short term,” said Ryan Berg, director of the Americas Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
By taking a hard position, Trump may have been trying to refer to other countries as well as Colombia that he would not link any opposition: leaders must restore their citizens who live in the United States illegally.
It is not clear that dust with Colombia was necessary. Colombian President Gustavo Petro objected to sending the Trump administration to military aircraft, saying they should not be treated like criminals.
Ultimately Petro, avoiding what could have been a devastating trade war with the United States.
But during the Biden administration, the United States was already returning the Colombians to their homeland.
The person said: “Our administration has made the Colombian for between 100 and 200 trip to Colombia to Colombia.” “This is not a new thing. We did it over and over again. What is different is Trump who wanted to do this with military flights. Colombia said at first no. Or civil. “
Senator Chris Murphy, Di Kun, a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, said the dispute with Colombia was a “day of fake drama.”
The media has behaved as if Colombia surrendered. “It was not the case,” Murphy added. “There were three trips a week before DUSTUP, and there are three trips a week now.” “Trump has created good newspapers for himself without changing anything.”
