Trump has spoken with both Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe since Thursday's announcement, and said Xi "appreciates that the US is working to solve the problem diplomatically rather than going with the ominous alternative".
Trump was often willing to talk up the "special relationship "between Washington and London, and was a supporter of a no-deal Brexit and the possibility of a free-trade deal with the US, the world's largest economy.
Trump, in a visit Wednesday to an Apple assembly plant in Austin, Texas, accompanied by CEO Tim Cook, railed against the impeachment proceedings and the media and praised the strength of the US economy.
Trump, who has sought to curtail immigration and build a border wall on the Mexican border, this week threatened to halt aid if Central American governments did not act.
Trump, speaking in the East Room, said that more than 150 of his judicial nominees have been confirmed by the Senate and dozens more are going to be confirmed "within the next short period of time."
Trump may be right in his earlier assessment that the decades-old military bloc is "obsolete", as it was a product of the Cold War, but his seeming indifference to maintaining the alliance has merely reinforced the perception that the transatlantic unity that has been the foundation of the West-led order is no longer as strong as it was.
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Trump has refused to rule out US military action in Venezuela. He raised the pressure on Monday, issuing a warning to the Venezuelan military.
Trump "is going to prioritize those workers who are offered the highest wages," as an indicator that they can add more value to the US economy, the official said.
Trump, however, also said in the strategy, "Competition does not always mean hostility, nor does it inevitably lead to conflict, although none should doubt our commitment to defend our interests." He underlined cooperation with reciprocity in his strategy.
Tubbat is devoted to planting trees in the desert in his hometown in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region. [Photo by Yuan Hui/China Daily]