Trump and World Leaders — Randomness or Strategic Ambiguity?

The Brian Lehrer Show | Dec 6, 2016

Trump has recently incited controversy by breaking a decades-long official silence between American and Taiwanese heads of state. He also told Pakistan's Prime Minister, "You are a terrific guy. You are doing amazing work which is visible in every way." Fred Kaplan, Slate's War Stories columnist and the author of Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War (Simon & Schuster, 2016), discusses these recent conversations with foreign leaders and what kind of foreign policy Trump might (or might not) be planning.

"In many places in the world, there r things that r known as 'strategic ambiguities.' " @fmkaplan, to @BrianLehrer, re Trump&foreign policy
— Josh Weinberger (@kitson) December 6, 2016

@fmkaplan @BrianLehrer The President of United States CAN NOT play the role of the"JOKER"!People real life matters,wordly real life matters!
— oumyehia (@oumyehia) December 6, 2016

@fmkaplan: Petraeus being a general might work against his likelihood of being picked by Trump for Secretary of State
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) December 6, 2016

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