New world disorder: Will the US lose key allies?

Donald Trump’s foreign policy may see the US lose key allies, writes Mark Champion

BREXIT was the warm-up. With the election of Donald Trump, the populist tide sweeping developed economies has now overtaken the world’s most powerful democracy.

What exactly that means for the rest of the world depends upon just how serious the property developer and reality TV star was about his campaign pledges. Those ranged from triggering trade wars to undermining Nato to stoking a new nuclear arms race.