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“Given how the Trump administration didn’t pay sufficient consideration to constructing partnerships with like-minded states in Asia,” mentioned Aries A. Arugay, the chair of the political science division on the University of the Philippines Diliman, “a second Trump presidency will endanger the momentum achieved by the revitalized United States-Philippine relations.”
But Bilahari Kausikan, a former prime diplomat from Singapore, cautioned towards equating American values with Asian ones.
“We construction our relationship with the U.S. way more on the idea of frequent pursuits fairly than frequent values,” he mentioned. “And the people who find themselves very upset over the prospect of Trump, whether or not in Europe or within the U.S., or individuals who really feel that he doesn’t share their values, we don’t share the values within the first place, not all of them anyway.”
The verdict towards Mr. Trump got here as India was wrapping up its 44-day election season. Manoj Jha, an opposition politician, mentioned that Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India, who’s working for a 3rd time period, has employed a number of the identical ways as Mr. Trump by “demonizing a bit of his personal inhabitants.”
“They thrive on worry,” Mr. Jha mentioned.
In a minimum of one regard — the prosecution of former leaders — the remainder of the world is way forward of the United States. South Korea, the place 4 ex-presidents have been convicted of corruption and abuse of energy, has made one thing of a nationwide sport of imprisoning disgraced leaders. Former French presidents Nicolas Sarkozy and Jacques Chirac had been convicted of corruption.
Jacob Zuma, the previous president of South Africa, has been charged with cash laundering, amongst different crimes. And Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was sentenced to years in jail for corruption after main Brazil. His convictions had been finally annulled. He is once more president of the nation.
Camille Elemia, Choe Sang-Hun, Motoko Rich, Alexandra Stevenson, Sui-Lee Wee and Sameer Yasir contributed reporting.
