Trump’s opportunity to make the world a safer place - Washington Examiner

David Rothkopf : China is the greatest threat the U.S. faces, but the world doesn't begin and end with China and the Pacific .

He says to succeed as commander in chief, Donald Trump will need to master many other global challenges and opportunities.

Trump should make clear to Modi that his vast energy imports from Iran and Russia and failure to reciprocate military exercises will limit America ’s ability to provide certain technologies and market opportunities.

Saudi Arabia has been a critical U.S. counterterrorism ally and economic partner, writes Julian Zelizer .

Trump should offer both the hand of friendship and the plainer expectation of a more honest partnership with Europe , he says.

Trump ’s plan to tariff all imports from historic allies would start a trade war that, as in the 1920s and 1930s , would benefit no one.