Authorises use of "mother of all bombs" targeting IS

militants in Afghanistan
: Authorises missile strikes against Syrian regime

Signs Energy Independence executive order, dismantling

Obama environmental regulations

Signs new executive order imposing a 90-day ban on visas

from six mostly Muslim nations. Iraq is excluded.

Venezuela vice president Tareck El Aissami sanctioned by US

as "drug trafficker
Imposed sanctions on Iran following ballistic missile test

Signs executive order to suspend refugee arrivals and impose

"extreme vetting" on arrivals from seven Muslim countries.

Day Six
:: Signs an executive order to authorise construction of border
wall with Mexico
Signs executive order withdrawing the US from the Trans-
Pacific Partnership
Reinstates "global gag rule" banning US funding for
international organisations that perform abortions
Trump repealed regulations intended to address climate change (such as the Clean Power Plan)
and withdrew from the Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation.
issued a controversial executive order denying entry into the U.S. to citizens of certain countries,
and withdrew from the Iran nuclear agreement.
recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel,
enacted tariffs on steel and aluminum imports that triggered retaliatory tariffs from the European
Union and from China

Trump repeatedly criticized members of NATO

threatened to stop all car trade with Germany.[569] In July 2018, Trump has criticized the Nord Stream
2 natural gas pipeline linking Russia and Germany.[570
president-elect since 1979 to speak directly to the President of Taiwan. This called into question
whether Trump would continue to follow the long-standing one-China policy of the United States
regarding the political status of Taiwan.[616]
r Barack Obama signed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA
, leading to 58 deaths in what was the deadliest day since the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict.[679]
The US then had 8,400 American troops in Afghanistan. Most of them participated in the NATO
mission Resolute Support

On August 21, 2017, Trump announced expansion of the American presence in Afghanistan, without
giving details on how
autocratic government of Nicolás Maduro and the deepening crisis in Venezuela.

Maduro won amid widespread allegations of fraud, Trump imposed new economic sanctions on
Venezuela.[705]
During the 2016 campaign, Trump called for a re-negotiation of free trade agreements,
including NAFTA, a free trade agreement among the United States, Canada, and Mexico that
entered into force in 1994
undermining the rules-based international order.[
he famine in Yemen worsened because the Saudi Arabia, with the help of the United States,
tightened the blockade of Yemen.
endorse a Saudi strategy inside Yemen that is deliberately using disease and starvation and the
withdrawal of humanitarian support as a tactic
furthering global governance institutions is not a goal for his administration. From plans to
dramatically reduce funding for multilateral institutions, 2 to draft executive orders signaling the
potential withdrawal from various international treaties, 3 to the decision to bomb a Syrian airstrip
without Security Council authorization (
United States may be withdrawing from its leadership role in international law and institutions.
lack of support for the Paris Agreement which may lead to accelerated climate change, which in turn
is linked to draught, refugee flows, and civil unrest; and (ii) ongoing U.S. opposition (which predates
the Trump presidency) to assessed contributions at the United Nations to fund reparations /
compensation for the introduction of cholera into Haiti and the Green Climate Fund
One order, entitled “Auditing and Reducing U.S. Funding of International Organizations,

Multilateralism and the multilateral institutions face serious threats. This in turn threatens the
continuing progress in solving critical global economic and social challenges: slowing global economic
growth and recurring global financial crises; growing inequality

; rising challenges to an open global trading regime

s. The approval of the Agenda 2030, the Addis Agenda, and the Paris Agreement of COP21 in 2015
represented a high point in this trend toward a global agenda underpinned by multilateralist approaches

a weakening in the belief in a rule-based international order and in the support for multilateral
approaches and solutions

t, they supported a rule-based approach to global relations and the strengthening of global and regional
institutions, they now appear to favor a more “transactional” approach involving bilateral deals and
solutions and pursuing “our country first”

the Paris climate agreement and the Green Climate Fund (GCF),

During the current phase of (possible) US withdrawal from global development leadership, other
countries have to play a constructive role in maintaining and further strengthening the multilateral
system

Stop the further fragmentation of the multilateral system and consolidate existing funding windows,
wherever possible. • Fix the governance issues of the IMF and WB and agree on a substantial increase in
the IMF quotas and in the World Bank Group’s capitalization. • The World Bank Group should pursue
potential engagements in support of its advanced member countries. • Focus reform efforts of the UN
system on improving the efficiency of the major individual agencies and on enhanced collaboration at
the country-level through effective partnerships in the context of specific program interventions and by
converting earmarked donor contributions into core contributions. • Systematically review the
multilateral development institutions to explore where increased financial leverage may be used to
generate more impact at scale for given resources. • Resist tendencies for increased protectionism and
revive the multilateral trade agenda, by liberalizing agriculture, facilitating trade in services, and tackling
regulatory convergence. • Ensure that the voluntary pledges under the Paris climate agreement are fully
implemented and, if possible, exceeded and reinforce the commitment to raising and effectively
delivering the global financial resources pledged for climate change mitigation and adaptation. • Focus
the G20 Summit exchanges on a few high-level strategic issues, including trade, climate change, and
strengthening the multilateral institutions and processes.