A glimpse of a Trump presidency

Let’s suppose it’s July 2017 and Trump has won the U.S. election. The policy shockwaves are hitting Canada, China, the EU, and Mexico hard.

With Trump elected president, China may manufacture a military confrontation with the United States to distract popular discontent at home with a foreign threat, predicts Gwynne Dyer.Photo courtesy of Gage Skidmore

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

July 27, 2016

LONDON, U.K.—Let us suppose that it is July 2017. Let us suppose that Donald Trump, nominated as the Republican candidate for the United States presidency exactly a year ago, won the November election—quite narrowly, perhaps, but the polls are certainly suggesting that such a thing is possible. ...

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