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The New Statesman.

I think your everyday person has this expectation of the US coming in, like in Iraq and Afghanistan,

this kind of belief that US intervention would generally follow according to those models.

Brian Hugh is the founding editor of New Bloom magazine.

He's speaking to me from his home in Taipei, Taiwan,

a territory which has long relied on US security assistance. But now Trump is back in the White

House, and as his vice president, J.D. Vance put it recently, there is a new sheriff in town.

America is back.

The result is a radically different approach to U.S. foreign policy.

And a dramatic departure even from how Trump was viewed at the start of his first term.

At that point in time, I think people expected him to be a kind of traditional Republican, antagonistic towards China on anti-communist grounds.

But now, fast forward all these years later, and there's much more of a sense of his unreliability.

And then with Ukraine, we see this attempt to really twist Ukraine's arm and humiliate it on the international stage,

as well as try to get Ukraine to sign this

extractive resource agreement. And I think that's quite concerning then for Taiwan, because, again,

Trump has already lashed out of Taiwan, and he may do the same then or want to do the same.

In recent weeks, President Trump's foreign policy pronouncements have been loud and abrasive.

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