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As Trump Era Arrives, a Sense of Uncertainty Grips the World
President-elect Donald J.
Trump in the Trump Tower lobby on Monday. His remarks in a string of
interviews have escalated tensions with China and infuriated allies.Credit
Hilary Swift for The New York Times
LONDON — The Germans are angry. The Chinese are downright furious. Leaders of NATO are nervous, while their counterparts at the European Union are alarmed.
Just days before he is sworn into office, President-elect Donald J. Trump
has again focused his penchant for unpredictable disruption on the rest
of the world. His remarks in a string of discursive and sometimes
contradictory interviews have escalated tensions with China while also infuriating allies and institutions critical to America’s traditional leadership of the West.
No one knows where exactly he is headed — except that the one country he is not criticizing is Russia and its president, Vladimir V. Putin. For now. And that he is an enthusiastic cheerleader of Brexit and an unaffiliated Britain. For now.
Mr.
Trump’s unpredictability is perhaps his most predictable
characteristic. The world is accustomed to his provocative Twitter
messages, but is less clear about whether his remarks represent
meaningful new policy guidelines, personal judgments or passing whims.
In the interviews, Mr. Trump described the European Union as “basically a
vehicle for Germany” and predicted that the bloc would probably see other countries follow Britain’s example and vote to leave.
Mr. Trump also said Germany’s chancellor, Angela Merkel, had made a “catastrophic mistake” in allowing refugees to pour into Europe.
The barrage of inflammatory comments
in joint interviews published Sunday and Monday in Britain and Germany
elicited alarm and outrage in Europe, even as Ms. Merkel dryly
characterized Mr. Trump’s positions as nothing new.
“They
have been known for a while — my positions are also known,” Ms. Merkel
said Monday in Berlin. “I think we Europeans have control of our
destiny.”
Her
clipped response came as officials and analysts struggled with how to
interpret Mr. Trump’s remarks, as well as how to react to them.
Some
argued that the president-elect’s words should be regarded as tactical,
intended merely to keep his options open. But nearly everyone agreed
that Mr. Trump had made trouble, especially in criticizing Ms. Merkel,
given her importance as a figure of stability in Europe and her campaign
for re-election later this year.
For
good measure, Mr. Trump had also infuriated China by using an interview
on Friday with The Wall Street Journal to again question China’s
longstanding One China policy. It holds that Taiwan is an inalienable
part of the mainland.
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