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Fuzzy future: Expectations are low, no matter who wins, but it would seem that Asia cautiously views Harris as the better option over Trump. — AP
Expectations are low, no matter who wins the deadlocked Nov 5 election, but it would seem that Asia cautiously views Vice-President Kamala Harris as the better option. “Trump will definitely take a far more isolationist and America First approach, but it doesn’t mean Harris will be able to take the world back to 1995 when WTO was formed,” Liew said, referring to the hopes spurred for a reduction of trade barriers and expansion of global trade at the birth of the World Trade Organisation.
“We will deal with the consequences of elections, and we will engage whoever is victorious,” he said.With diplomatic decorum, the Chinese Embassy in Washington said it hoped that whoever is elected is committed to growing ties. The furry emissaries may help, it ventured. But others, like Professor Da Wei from Tsinghua University, caution that policy continuity is less positive than it seems because it perpetuates poor ties that exist now.“If Trump were to continue with the tariffs, it may reach a point where the American economy cannot bear it anymore, and Trump’s new ideas on foreign policy issues, such as on Ukraine, may bring about new opportunities for us.”
Poling said: “I would imagine that Trump would be open to some kind of splashy but somewhat shallow displays of diplomacy, as we saw under the first term.”A defining moment could be how Trump handles Taiwan relations early in his administration. After winning the 2016 presidential election, he breached decades of diplomatic protocol by having a phone conversation with Taiwan’s then President Tsai Ing-wen.
Harris is expected to continue current policies but, unlike Biden, she has not explicitly stated that the US would intervene militarily if China were to attack Taiwan. Japan has had a better record with Trump, thanks to the personal rapport that the late prime minister Shinzo Abe struck with him, even before Trump’s 2017 inauguration. Even so, tentativeness remains about a possible Trump return. Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has said he was not averse to taking a cue from Abe’s diplomatic gambit, but he is now battling to stay in power after his coalition lost its majority in the Oct 27 General Election.
“Although former president Trump is often accused of being dismissive of alliances, and we might see him revert to his more transactional instincts, a more hawkish Trump 2.0 would ultimately seek to deepen security and economic ties with important allies and partners so as to better counter China,” she said.
He said he had been assured that support for the Philippines will not change under Trump, although the approach might. She may not have “the experience or the desire to quickly shape her foreign policy in ways that are significantly different from Biden’s priorities”, noted Malaysian Investment Development Authority board member Ong Kian Ming.
“I am not sure that there will be as much enthusiasm for tariffs as a tool to manage debt and trade deficits,” said the business leader. “Should Trump win, our trading partners need to prepare for tariff hikes,” she said. “While the timing, condition and level of increases remain unclear, there is no doubt that Trump remains the ‘tariff man’.”
The question that remains unanswered is to what extent Harris’ policies will depart from Biden’s. Would she, for instance, add digital economy to the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity, which was the Biden administration’s response to Trump’s withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade pact in 2017?
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