Undiplomatic diplomacy
By Stephen Collinson, CNN
Updated 9:07 AM ET, Fri February 3, 2017
... Trump hailed the virtues of being unpredictable on the world stage. Much to the happiness of some of his supporters, he's following through. But in the process, Trump is confusing much of the world. He's also handing some leaders, such as those in the United Kingdom and Mexico, political headaches of their own after encountering Trump. And some of America's allies are beginning to warn that Trump is putting over 70 years of transatlantic cooperation at risk ...
"It's a level of discourtesy that we don't expect ... It will continue to inform the Australian public's view of Mr. Trump. I think inevitably it would inform public opinion about the alliance" ...
Trump's frequent criticisms of the European Union, which he has branded corrupt while apparently rooting for more nations to join Britain by voting to leave, is irking US allies ...
"We have an unwritten rule in diplomacy, you are going to argue with your friends but do it behind closed doors, don't expose differences, in public," Nicholas Burns, a longtime US diplomat and former under secretary of state for political affairs, told CNN International. "Don't make life difficult for your friends, the Prime Minister of Australia, the Chancellor of Germany, the President of Mexico."
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