World Leaders Line Up to Talk, Meet with Trump
World Leaders Line Up to Talk, Meet with Trump
This is the week where everyone puts their cards on the table, says AS/COA’s Brian Winter as leaders from countries including Mexico have their first conversations with President Trump.
World leaders from Mexico, Canada and Israel had their first conversations with President Trump over the weekend, ahead of his first face-to-face visit with British Prime Minister Theresa May later this week.
While foreign policy analysts are unsure whether the new president will charge ahead with promises he made during the campaign, they expect Trump to transfer his business tactics to the diplomatic negotiating table.
"This is the week where everyone puts their cards on the table," said Brian Winter, vice president for policy at Americas Society/Council of the Americas. "He's a deal maker, and he will take a very tough position at the beginning and then negotiate over time, because that's the way he does business."…
…Trump is scheduled to meet in person with Mexico's Peña Nieto on Jan. 31, when the two leaders will have a long list of issues to discuss. Chief among them will be Trump's vow to make Mexico pay for a wall along the southwest border and to dismantle, or seriously alter, the 23-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement with the U.S., Mexico and Canada….
