Trump will probably conduct foreign policy as an extension of “the art of the deal,” the former tycoon’s negotiating principle, says Bryan Clark, a defense expert with the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. “I think he could react more aggressively than past administrations would for the purpose of strengthening his negotiating position down the road,” Clark says. Clark says Trump’s choices could include shooting down North Korea’s next test missile, providing lethal arms to Ukraine’s government, deploying U.S. anti-missile systems in Eastern Europe and conducting more aggressive naval operations near islands China claims as its own in the South China Sea.
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