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Trump's America First Agenda Shapes GOP Foreign Policy

Megan Duzor

   The Republican Party's foreign policy agenda has been almost entirely
   shaped in the past four years by President Donald Trump's approach to
   international relations, including new trade deals, skepticism of
   international organizations, and calls to reduce U.S. troop deployments
   overseas.

   Because of the coronavirus pandemic and social distancing protocols,
   the Republican Party this year did not write a new party platform,
   which traditionally gives an official outline of the party's vision and
   policy priorities. However, the party said in a resolution released at
   this week's convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, that if it had
   been able to convene in 2020 to write a new platform, it would have
   "undoubtedly unanimously" backed the Trump administration's agenda.

   The party has rallied around Trump's foreign policy goals, largely
   encapsulated by his "America First" slogan, which he debuted during his
   2016 campaign and repeated Monday in an outline of his second-term
   agenda released by his campaign. Other foreign policy goals were to
   "bring our troops home" and "end our reliance on China."

   China

   China has become one of the central foreign policy topics in the 2020
   campaign, heightened by Trump's trade war as well as questions of
   China's handling of the coronavirus pandemic.

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