Editorial

14:00 JST, December 9, 2025

The foreign and security policies that the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump seeks to advance carry the risk of overturning and collapsing the postwar world order led by the United States based on democracy and the rule of law.

The first National Security Strategy of the second Trump administration has been released. It cited “America First” as its fundamental principle, aiming to maximize the United States’ own interests, and declared, “The days of the United States propping up the entire world order … are over.”

It criticized past administrations for intervening in other countries based on values like democracy and human rights and emphasized its intention to break away from this approach.

Accordingly, the Trump........

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