Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump is showing what happens when the United States abandons its decades-long role as a guarantor of stability and instead chooses to act as an agent of global disruption.
A series of economic and political shocks are fomenting disorder across the planet and straining an international political system that Trump deliberately set out to undermine.
- Stock markets are tumbling as warning signs flash of a global recession exacerbated by fears deepened by the US-China trade war.
- Nuclear-armed India and Pakistan are locked in a dangerous new standoff.
- The post-Cold War arms control regime is breaking down.
- South Korea and Japan -- the foundation of US influence in Asia -- are reviving age-old animosity.
- Concern about a Tiananmen Square-style crackdown by Beijing in Hong Kong is growing as Trump looks the other way.
- Iran and the US just narrowly avoided spiraling into a disastrous war partly precipitated by the President's maximum pressure campaign.
- And the European Union -- for years a crucial co-sponsor with the US of world stability -- is seeing one of its three most influential members, Britain, heading for the exits, with enthusiastic encouragement from the White House.
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- https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/15/politics/donald-trump-economy-market-drop-global-chaos/index.html
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