E. GUTIERREZ

NEWS IN BRIEF 2 September 16th – 22nd 2017 BLOOMBERG POLITICS On the occasion of the latest UN general assembly, Trump delivered unusually stark denunciations of both North Korea and Iran, telling his audience -- including officials from those two countries -- that no nation can remain on the sidelines when rogue governments threaten war.

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The president threatened to destroy another country at the UN Apart from that, his speech was surprisingly conventional The Economist, 21st September 2017 Echoing countries such as China or Russia, with their talk of non-interference in the affairs of sovereign nations, Mr Trump said that America does not expect “diverse countries to share the same cultures, traditions or even systems of government”. Instead he praised the work of “responsible” countries that fight terrorism or other menaces, recalling fruitful talks with Muslim rulers brought together by Saudi Arabia. Mr Trump made headlines by using bellicose, action-hero language to send a rather conventional message of deterrence to North Korea, branding that country’s dictator, Kim Jong Un, a “Rocket Man” bent on a “suicide mission”. Should America be forced to defend itself or its allies, he added, “we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea.” The president poured scorn on the deal brokered by Barack Obama’s government and other world powers to freeze Iran’s nuclear-weapons programme in exchange for easing international sanctions. The nuclear deal was an “embarrassment to the United States”, and the world had not “heard the last of it”, Mr Trump thundered. Yet look behind the headlines about his swaggering rhetoric, and at other moments Mr Trump sounded like a conventional Republican. He left his options open when it came to scrapping the Iran deal. He called for cost-saving UN reforms, but did not threaten to leave the world body. He rebuked the leftist regime in Venezuela, promising “further action” if the government there headed further down the path to authoritarian rule. How all that squares with America First nationalism and scrupulous respect for the sovereignty of such non-democracies as Saudi Arabia is less clear. By way of answer Mr Trump offered the outlines of a Trump doctrine, in which nationalism, or patriotism as he prefers to call it, is a benign organising principle for the world. Just as he won office by heeding “forgotten” Americans, so he urged others to build strong economies, societies and families, not waiting for global bureaucracies to save them. “We are calling for a great reawakening of nations,” he said. The tension between respecting national sovereignty and honouring universal rights has thrummed like an electric charge through the UN since its founding in 1945. Mr Trump either does not sense that tension, or does not want to. “America stands with every person living under a brutal regime,” he declared, adding: “Our respect for sovereignty is also a call for action. All people deserve a government that cares for their safety, their interests and their well-being, including their prosperity.” He left unexplained who should decide which governments are brutal. Mr Trump further claimed that the UN was founded as a forum for strong, proudly self-interested nations. In fact America helped create the world body to curb the horrors of nationalism. But that is a history lesson.

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