Indian Express – Has the US already lost to China? Trump’s policies and the shifting global order

Dec 30, 2025Book Reviews

Review By: Indian Express

How Trump’s America First agenda is hastening the global shift toward Chinese power.

Looking back at 2025, it is hard to miss that Donald Trump’s policies have fundamentally altered the world. The country that has been leading the global order since the end of the Second World War announced, rather paradoxically, that it is open for business by bringing down shutters.

That, in a nutshell, is the combined result of the two main policies under President Trump: Slapping punitive tariffs (even on his longstanding trade and military allies) on the one hand, and cracking down on illegal and unwanted immigration. In taking these decisions, the US has arguably violated many rules and laws of the international order it helped create in the first place.

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