Former U.S. President Donald Trump left office with his administration’s domestic policies having shaken the United States to its core and some historians ranking him among the most divisive American leaders to ever set foot in the Oval Office.
But his policies toward Asia, or what the Trump White House termed the Indo-Pacific, may ultimately tell a different story.
While many of these policies were erratic, bore little immediate fruit or appeared to severely damage partnerships, some of the fundamentals are expected to survive his administration’s departure as holdovers that could be expanded on and refined by his successor, President Joe Biden.