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Negotiations for such an agreement – the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership – stalled during President Barack Obama’s administration.
In France and across Europe, people expected an extremely conservative government, akin to US President George W. Bush’s administration.
But human rights and the rule of law began to re-emerge as a theme of Western policy, especially in the wake of the Helsinki Conference on European Security and Cooperation and its use by the administration of US President Jimmy Carter, as well as by numerous non-governmental advocates protesting the treatment of Soviet dissidents.
Even as the Bush administration was spinning the notion that the torture of prisoners was the work of “a few bad apples” low in the military hierarchy, I knew that we were seeing evidence of a systemic policy set at the top.
Romney has promised tougher negotiations on trade and currency with China, but is generally far more likely to push new trade agreements than the labor-supported Obama administration.
Likewise, in 2004, Costa Rica’s president decreed that his administration stop advertising in the country’s leading daily newspaper, in retaliation for critical coverage.
A major impediment to progress is the US administration’s strange policy that dialogue on controversial issues will be extended only as a reward for subservient behavior and will be withheld from those who reject US assertions.
If Trump did not like the INDCs set by the Obama administration, he could have revised them at any time.
Almost every major US state, city, and company has now pledged to do more to ensure that their country can meet its commitments, despite the Trump administration’s opposition.
According to the Trump administration’s own analysis, more than twice as many Americans are now working in the solar industry than in coal, oil, and gas combined.
In the United States, the Trump administration has asserted a prerogative to recover cleaning fees after demonstrations, effectively allowing the government to charge protesters for exercising their constitutional right.
And in an even more blatant effort to curtail public dissent, the administration has tried to bar assemblies from 80% of the sidewalks around the White House.
Despite this, the response of US President Barack Obama’s administration has so far been muted.
We were astonished during President George W. Bush’s first term at the administration’s hostility to science, reflected in its stance on climate change and Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution.
Indeed, all Western governments, with the exception of the Obama administration, are committed to retrenchment – and Obama cannot get a new stimulus package through Congress.
This movement managed to force the first environmental laws out of the conservative Nixon administration: the National Environmental Act of 1969, the Clean Air Act of 1970, the Clean Water Act of 1972, and the Endangered Species Act of 1973.
But the current Bush administration has been hacking away at these 1970’s laws from all directions.
Indeed, even Bush’s own political base, the Christian fundamentalists, are becoming “green,” pressuring the administration to sign the Kyoto Protocol because they believe that the environment must be protected just like unborn life.
All that was left to guessing was which of the two would agree to be prime-minister in the other's presidential administration.
He made the right choice before the Iraq war - America's intervention was never justified and has yielded a terrible failure - and so found himself in sync with an emerging European, even global, opposition to the Bush administration.
French President Emmanuel Macron’s last-minute effort to construct a broader diplomatic approach toward Iran was sidelined in the final hour, with little to no explanation from the Trump administration.
George W. Bush’s administration took matters much further, with a defense agreement in 2005 and a landmark accord on civil nuclear cooperation in 2008 (which remains the centerpiece of the transformed relationship).
Japan’s governments have been fragile and short-lived for close to a decade, and the current debate over raising the value-added tax could cause another change of administration.
But this is consistent with the Obama administration’s policy of seeking a dialogue even with those who are not America’s friends.
To be sure, the Trump administration is not entirely wrong to call out countries, like Germany, with large current-account surpluses, about which all countries, including in Europe, should be concerned.
Reduce the duty on cars imported from the US, the Trump administration will say, and your steel exports will be spared.
After all, this is how the administration has been dealing with Canada and Mexico.
Trump has temporarily exempted those two countries from the tariffs, but now expects concessions from them in his administration’s renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
If the Trump administration shows some openness to giving Europe a better deal, the EU should try to focus on opening a broader dialogue on trade with the US.
An already protectionist Trump administration will then have to pursue additional protectionist measures to maintain these workers’ support, thereby further hampering economic growth and diminishing corporate profits.
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