Donald Trump has had quite a week. At the G7 summit in Canada the US president repudiated the rules-based international order, preferring to throw a tantrum on trade. By Tuesday, he was discarding longstanding security guarantees to America’s east Asian allies at his headline-grabbing talks in Singapore with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. The security of Europe and east Asia has been underwritten for 70 years by a US alliance system. Mr Trump is intent on dismantling it.
上週,美國總統唐納•川普(Donald Trump)度過了不尋常的一週。在加拿大七國集團(G7)峯會上,川普駁斥了基於規則的國際秩序,在貿易問題上發了一通火。上週二,與北韓領導人金正恩(Kim Jong Un)在新加坡舉行舉世矚目的會談時,他拋棄了美國對東亞盟國長期以來的安全保證。70年來,歐洲和東亞的安全一直由美國安保聯盟體系擔負著,而川普打算廢除這個體系。