S1E55: Trump’s presidency: How Asia will view his legacy - Asian Insider Ep 56

  • 14 Apr 2021

Asian Insider Ep 56: Trump’s presidency - how Asia will view his legacy

16:52 mins

Synopsis: Every Friday, The Straits Times' US bureau chief Nirmal Ghosh presents an Asian perspective of the week's global talking points with expert guests.

President Donald Trump made his mark with his America First foreign policy, but how will Asia look back on his legacy?

US bureau chief Nirmal Ghosh hosts the following guests:

  1. Professor Kishore Mahbubani, Distinguished Fellow at the Asia Research Institute at National University of Singapore (NUS)
  2. Professor C Raja Mohan from NUS' Institute of South Asian Studies
  3. Mr Ankit Panda from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

They discuss the following:

  1. Trump’s legacy will be overwhelmingly negative (1:25)
  2. Trump faltered, not only on trade, but security cooperation too (3:31)
  3. Trump made two critical mistakes to spur China’s rise (7:39)
  4. Any positive legacies from Trump’s foreign policy on Asia? (11:31)

Produced by: Nirmal Ghosh (nirmal@sph.com.sg) & ST Video team

Edited by: ST Video team and Muhammad Firmann

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