Win or lose, the Trump-Vance candidacy will impact the global order
livemint.comEven as the US Democratic Party works to secure a formal nomination for Kamala Harris after President Joe Biden’s decision to bow out of the electoral process, the Republican National Convention earlier this month put its stamp on former president Donald Trump’s candidacy for the White House. Trump also announced the junior senator from Ohio since 2023, J.D.
Vance, as his running mate. Vance had been a strong critic of Trump in the past, calling him “America’s Hitler" and a “moral disaster." He had been categorical in his public assessment of Trump as a “total fraud" who didn’t care about regular people and had even called him “reprehensible." But that was then.
After the assassination attempt against Trump, Vance placed the blame directly on Biden and had tweeted: “The central premise of the Biden campaign is that president Donald Trump is an authoritarian fascist who must be stopped at all costs. That rhetoric led directly to president Trump’s attempted assassination." At the convention, he was all praises for Trump, arguing that Trump had “given everything he has to fight for his country" and that “he didn’t need politics but the country needed him." More strikingly, he also laid out a vision of a Trump-Vance foreign policy that is striking in the way it positions the Republican external engagement far away from the traditional centre ground of American politics.
Both Trump and Vance have articulated a foreign policy landscape that is causing ripples across the world. The most significant aspect of a Trump-Vance foreign policy is likely to be an even closer scrutiny of China.
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