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Where Will Trump Flip-Flop on Foreign Policy Next?

After NATO and Chinese currency, here are a few good candidates.
Source: Jonathan Ernst / Reuters

Donald Trump is nothing if not flexible when it comes to his policy positions. He knows how to seize the limelight, as he did with a surprise strike on Syria, and has been moving along what has charitably been as the “learning curve” on a host of other issues. No issue shows Trump’swillingness to more than NATO: “I said it was obsolete. It’s no longer obsolete,” he said recently. The challenge in analyzing this president is in predicting

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