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    Trump's Bellicosity Is Ceding America's Influence to China

    The president’s imprudent tweets are convincing the world, and South Korea, that the United States is an unreliable ally.
    by David Frum Jan 03, 2018 3 minutes
    Source: Jonathan Ernst / Reuters

    Leave to the psychoanalysts the question why Korea seems to provoke President Trump to more reckless comments than any other international problem. What the world must live with are the consequences.

    Again and again since Inauguration Day, Donald Trump has said and tweeted provocative denunciations not only of North Korea, but also of America’s supposed ally, South Korea.

    In April 2017, on the eve of South Korean presidential elections, the president gave an to Reuters that punched two sensitive points. He threatened to rip

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