Despite a busy agenda and an urgent list of world problems, expectations for significant progress are remarkably low, even within the administration.
President Trump listens to Chinese President Xi Jinping's speech during their bilateral meeting at the Group of 20 summit in Buenos Aires in December 2018. The two will meet again in Osaka, Japan, this week.
The lowered prospects reflect how much less of a role multilateral institutions and meetings have in the Trump era. They also highlight the administration’s lack of clearly articulated foreign policy goals. Trump has repeatedly suggested that improved U.S. ties with Moscow would be a good thing, for example, but has never made clear what he hopes to gain.is familiar by now.
“They aren’t entirely sure how it’s going to work, and that level of uncertainty is what just eats away at the value of these relationships,” said Heather Conley, a Russia specialist at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank. “We’re seeing the slow death of multilateralism in many respects. It’s a death by a thousand cuts.”
“You have a woman in Europe, I won’t mention her name,” Trump said. “She hates the United States, perhaps worse than any person I’ve ever met.” “Xi is just a long-term political operator,” said David Dollar, a senior fellow at Washington’s Brookings Institution. “I’m skeptical that any foreign leader builds a real personal relationship with him. Most China experts think we have the worst U.S.-China relationship we've had in 40 years.”
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