Foreign policy experts rebuke Trump
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WASHINGTON — A group of academic experts in international relations view
President Trump’s handling of foreign policy “largely as a failure” and have
identified specific examples of his botched global engagements while calling
for new leadership just weeks before Election Day.
The statement, provided to Yahoo News, is signed by nearly 50 foreign policy
scholars from a range of schools across the country, including Harvard,
Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, the Fletcher School at Tufts.
On the top of the list of concerns, the scholars write that
the “U.S. trade war with China” has only served to increase tariffs,
“badly hurt U.S. farmers” and hinder access to protective health
equipment at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic.
Additionally, they allege, Trump’s policies at home — including separating
immigrant children from their families, failing to condemn white supremacy
and acts of racial violence, and using the Department of Homeland Security
as a “hyper-partisan weapon” against immigrants — have diminished the U.S.
as a humanitarian leader on the global stage, while siphoning off domestic
resources that might be necessary “should a foreign adversary seek to do
harm to the United States and its citizens.”
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