Tigran Meloyan assessed Trump's trade policy toward the PRC, Canada, Mexico and the EU

The common element in US President Donald Trump 's actions towards China, Canada, Mexico and the EU is an invitation to dialog from a position of strength. Tigran Meloyan, an analyst at the Center for Mediterranean Studies of the National Research University Higher School of Economics, told Izvestia on February 4.

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"There is one common and key element in Trump's actions towards China, Canada, Mexico and the same EU - an invitation to dialog from a position of strength. After such a method is tested and shows its effectiveness, which has already been confirmed by the examples of Panama, Venezuela, Colombia, Mexico and Canada, Trump can smoothly move on to Russia," he said.

Instead of communication and reforming international structures, Trump favors withdrawing from anything that contradicts or is currently not in line with American interests, he said.

"This applies to the Paris climate agreement, the WHO, the UNHRC, and even the WTO. From now on, the U.S. foreign aid strategy will be rare, targeted and selective. At the same time, we have yet to encounter the communicative skills of the "toughest negotiator" in the course of solving the Ukrainian case," Meloyan added.

The full version of the commentary is available at the link.