The following article by Tracy Wilkinson, Alexadra Zavis and Shashank Bengali was posted on the Los Angeles Times website December 26, 2017:
The most recent example of U.S. isolation came with President Trump’s decision to formally recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
China has now assumed the mantle of fighting climate change, a global crusade that the United States once led. Russia has taken over Syrian peace talks, also once the purview of the American administration, whose officials Moscow recently deigned to invite to negotiations only as observers.
France and Germany are often now the countries that fellow members of NATO look to, after President Trump wavered on how supportive his administration would be toward the North Atlantic alliance. Continue reading “Trump claims he’s boosting U.S. influence, but many foreign leaders see America in retreat”