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An expert in global political risk ripped President Donald Trump in a new interview with the New York Times, calling him the “principal driver” of chaos and instability in the world, and accusing him of handing power to China in his race to ditch allies.<\/p>\n

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Ian Bremmer is a prominent American political scientist and the founder of Eurasia Group, with a focus on global risk. On Tuesday, the Times published an extensive interview with him conducted for a podcast by reporter Ezra Klein, in which he explained why Trump has become the main source of political strife and instability in the world, while noting that, in the beginning, he was merely a symptom of those same issues.<\/p>\n

“I would say he\u2019s first and foremost a symptom, not a cause, of trends that have been coming in the United States for a long time,” Bremmer said, when pressed about what Trump represents overall. “American people who believe that for various reasons the political system does not represent them adequately, that something about it is broken and so needs someone who is going to shake it up, who isn\u2019t going to be an establishment figure.”<\/p>\n

Likening the situation under Trump in the U.S. to the conditions that caused the collapse of the Roman Empire, Bremmer said that the country is driving massive global uncertainty and chaos out of a disinterest in being “dependable” or involved with longtime allies.<\/p>\n

“We don\u2019t want to be dependable,” Bremmer said about the new American government mindset under Trump. “We don\u2019t want to be there for the Ukrainians or for the Europeans in helping Ukraine. We don\u2019t want to be there for Taiwan. We\u2019ll make that a negotiation with the Chinese. We don\u2019t want to be there for the Japanese or the South Koreans. You guys should be doing that stuff yourselves. We\u2019re not going to be the architects of free trade. Everybody else should have to come and invest in the United States, because we\u2019re the big power and you guys have been taking advantage of us, and we don\u2019t even want to have the best talent from all over the world because we already have the Americans and that\u2019s what really matters. So you guys just do whatever you want.”<\/p>\n

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He added: “Those things are what is driving the geopolitical risk in the world today. The United States is the principal driver of geopolitical uncertainty in the world today. Trump and the Americans are driving it. They\u2019re driving it with tariffs and industrial policy. They\u2019re driving it with the war in Iran. They\u2019re driving it with the lack of predictability with the Europeans. They\u2019re driving it with the change to the structures and the rules and the norms inside the world\u2019s largest market.”<\/p>\n

Bremmer further argued that Trump’s push to abandon key alliances and partnerships is leaving a massive power vacuum in the global system, and it is one that China is already working to fill. This, he explained, could be seen when China declined Trump’s invitation to join his already-stalled “Board of Peace” initiative.<\/p>\n

“Why would they say no? Well, because the Chinese were like: If you guys are going to pull out of the U.N., we\u2019ll just be the most powerful country influencing the United Nations,” he explained. “If you guys are pulling out of the World Health Organization, we\u2019ll increase the amount we donate every year to the W.H.O. We\u2019ll be the people making those decisions.”<\/p>\n

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