President-elect Donald Trump’s avowed opposition to the Trans Pacific Partnership will work in China’s favour.
Jason Lee/Reuters
If Beijing can bring its neighbours to accept its regional leadership, China would have successfully achieved a dramatic reduction of US influence.
During his campaign, Trump has adopted a virulent nationalist tone.
Carlo Allegri/Reuters
From Iran and the relationship with Russia to global trade, many questions remain on how Donald Trump will shape his foreign policy.
EPA/Stephanie LeCocq
EU leaders couldn’t pretend to be happy about the result of the US election. It goes against everything they stand for.
Trump’s demagoguery had the effect not only of humiliating reason in the face of extreme emotion and prejudice, but also of taking people into cloud cuckoo land.
EPA/CRISTOBAL HERRERA
Trump’s demagoguery took political discourse in America to a place where it lost contact with reality.
Not exactly a sustainability agenda.
AP Photos/Evan Vucci
Trump has promised to abolish Obama’s Clean Power Plan and back out of the Paris climate accord. But business could become a key firewall that won’t let Obama’s sustainability legacy die.
Supporters of presidential candidate Al Gore protest during George W. Bush’s inauguration in January 2001. Gore won the popular vote but lost to Bush in the Electoral College.
Kevin Lamarque/Reuters
With two of the past five presidential election winners losing the popular vote, it’s hard to justify the continuation of the Electoral College.
Accepting grief is important for moving toward hope.
Shanon Wise
After Donald Trump’s victory, a scholar says the biblical prophets can help show us the way forward: Just as there is no peace without justice, there is no healing without grief.
Protesting against laws limiting access to abortions.
EPA/Shawn Thew
Recent Supreme Court rulings played a crucial role in the cultural politics that got Donald Trump elected.
Australian businesses should learn from the example of Brexit and wait to act.
Toby Melville/Reuters
Australian businesses should wait and rethink long term strategies in response to Trump’s election in the US.
Voting for what’s best for them?
Erik S. Lesser/EPA
It’s time to reconsider economists’ idea of rationality in the wake of Trump’s election.
EPA/Erik S. Lesser
China may have more to gain from Trump’s rise than any other nation – but the risks of a miscalculation are enormous.
Taking every opportunity.
EPA/Christophe Karaba
The Front National leader is feeling confident after Brexit and Trump.
Karl-Josef Hildenbrand/EPA
Do these tumultuous times also mean the end of Bond as we know it?
EPA/Ernesto Arias
Trade bashing is a well-established practice among US presidential candidates. The difference with Trump is that he may actually deliver on his rhetoric.
I’m building a golf course, a beautiful golf course, and I will make Scotland pay for it.
Andrew Milligan/PA
Can concern for the environment survive in the age of Trump and Brexit?
Toby Melville/Reuters
Diplomacy between Europe and Trump’s administration will be tricky, but not impossible.
Though daunting, the challenge of a Trump presidency is pregnant with possibilities.
EPA/SHAWN THEW
The outcome of this election may depend more on what we make of it than on what Trump and his advisers intend. Though daunting, the challenge is pregnant with possibilities.
Had US Senator Elizabeth Warren (left) been the Democratic candidate, she might be president by now.
Reuters/Carlos Barria
If there been an alternative feminist candidate, with a different, more disruptive agenda, we would have a feminist president.
Donald Trump and Barack Obama meet for the first time.
Reuters/Kevin Lamarque
The election of Donald Trump has awoken a streak of authoritarianism in America that is incompatible with it leading with liberal democratic ideals.
News of Trump’s election has had a deep impact on global climate talks now going on.
IISD/ENB | Liz Rubin
Memo To Marrakech: If the U.S. drops the mantle of global leadership on climate, here are the rest of the world’s options on how to react.