Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the US from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty fits a pattern. As the US president said in his speech to the UN General Assembly, he is unwilling to accept constraints on his America First foreign policy. Washington has quit the Paris climate accord and repudiated the international community’s nuclear deal with Iran. Such is the antipathy to multilateralism it has even announced that the US will be leaving the 144-year-old Universal Postal Union. Apparently, Mr Trump thinks China receives too good a deal.
唐納•川普(Donald Trump)將美國撤出《中程飛彈條約》(Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty)的決定符合一種模式。正如美國總統在聯合國大會(UN General Assembly)發表講話時所說的，他不願讓他的「美國優先」(America First)外交政策受到制約。華盛頓方面已退出巴黎氣候協定，還退出了國際社會與伊朗達成的核協議。對多邊主義如此反感的川普白宮，甚至宣佈美國將退出已有144年曆史的萬國郵政聯盟(Universal Postal Union)。顯然，川普認爲中國拿到了太多實惠。