Ten Ways Businessman Trump Has Improved America's Foreign Policy

A key feature of Donald Trump's presidency has been his application of business strategy to foreign affairs. The administration has benched the traditional diplomatic operatives of the State Department in favor of a strike force of men and women with lifetimes of experience at securing tough business deals. The president believes that it makes no sense for America's interests to be negotiated by career bureaucrats from Foggy Bottom while the expertise of American business titans sits untapped.

Throwing out NAFTA after three decades of harm to America's labor force, taking on China's predatory trade practices and dependence on slave labor, refusing to subsidize Chinese pollution while handicapping America's economy with the frivolous and ineffectual Paris Agreement, pursuing bilateral trade deals instead of massive regional deals such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership that allow economic bullies like China to take advantage of the United States — these are the fruits of an American economic policy pursued aggressively by businesspeople, not diplomats.

President Trump has applied this same calculated business approach to foreign conflict zones. Whether it is the recent peace deals between Serbia and Kosovo or between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain (and the promise of many more such Middle East deals to come); his unrelenting economic pressure on Iran; his pursuit of trade and foreign policy alliances with India, Japan, and Australia; his expanded partnerships with Southeast Asian and Indo-Pacific nations within China's imperialistic reach; his pursuit of greater economic and cultural ties to Central European countries struggling for self-determination in the shadows of both Russia and the European Union; or his open lines of communication with North Korea's Kim Jong-un — President Trump's approach to world affairs has set aside seventy-five years of post-WWII American diplomacy

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