"In uniting the US’s friends against it, the president has done something unthinkable"
https://www.ft.com/content/8315139c-68ab-11e8-b6eb-4acfcfb08c11
"It is hard to decide which event — a failed “G6 plus one” summit in Canada or a successful one with North Korea — is more incredible. But the former wins. By uniting America’s largest allies against the US, Mr Trump has pulled off something unthinkable. The sheep are abandoning the shepherd. Without America, the G7 would not exist. It is the closest thing the west has to a steering committee."
"What he supposedly wants — and what his America First doctrine implies — is a post-multilateral world. That is a transactional jungle in which the US has size advantage in every negotiation. It is a series of one-plus-ones in which Mr Trump is always bigger than the other. Almost nobody wants such a world, including most of America’s business community."
https://www.ft.com/content/8315139c-68ab-11e8-b6eb-4acfcfb08c11
"It is hard to decide which event — a failed “G6 plus one” summit in Canada or a successful one with North Korea — is more incredible. But the former wins. By uniting America’s largest allies against the US, Mr Trump has pulled off something unthinkable. The sheep are abandoning the shepherd. Without America, the G7 would not exist. It is the closest thing the west has to a steering committee."
"What he supposedly wants — and what his America First doctrine implies — is a post-multilateral world. That is a transactional jungle in which the US has size advantage in every negotiation. It is a series of one-plus-ones in which Mr Trump is always bigger than the other. Almost nobody wants such a world, including most of America’s business community."