Skills face questions after scuttling of talks
By NAHAL TOOSI, ANITA KUMAR, WESLEY MORGAN and VICTORIA GUIDA
09/08/2019 09:58 AM EDT
Updated 09/08/2019 05:26 PM EDT
President Donald Trump’s boasts about his dealmaking skills may have helped him win in 2016. But ... he has little to back up those claims on the world stage ...
Trump announced Saturday on Twitter that he was canceling ongoing U.S. peace talks with the Afghan Taliban ...
... It .. adds to a growing list of .. negotiating shortfalls — from Iran to North Korea to China ...
He has been unable to secure a new, more comprehensive nuclear deal with Iran as he promised he would do. He has met three times with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, but has made little progress in getting Kim to abandon his nuclear arsenal. His trade talks with China are going nowhere. And while his administration did manage to come to a new trade deal with Canada and Mexico to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement, it has yet to gain approval in Congress and it’s not drastically different from NAFTA itself ...
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/08/pompeo-trump-afghanistan-taliban-1484739
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