Philip Seib, uscpublicdiplomacy.org
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Excerpt:One of the reasons that American influence in the world is in such sharp decline is that Trump does not understand how information flows across the world. There is no longer any such thing as “domestic political content”; what he says in America does not stay in America. He is polluting the sea of information in which billions of people wade every day. Trump’s tweets are certainly being read with pleasure (and mirth) in Beijing and Moscow. For his own political gain, Trump is ripping apart the fabric of American civil society and undermining America’s global leadership role. In doing so, he is creating a vacuum that another country will fill. ...
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