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    Ivo H. Daalder and James M.

    Lindsay

    its favor. “As the U.S. retreats globally, China shows up,” Jin Yinan, a
    top Chinese military official, gloated last year. Beijing has positioned
    itself as a defender of the global trading system, the environment, and
    international law even as it exploits trade rules, builds more coal-burning
    power stations, and expands its control in the South China Sea. This
    bid to supplant the United States as the global leader is hardly destined
    to succeed. China has few friends and a lengthy list of internal challenges,
    including an aging work force, deep regional and economic inequalities,
    and a potentially brittle political system. But a world with no leader
    and multiple competing powers poses its own dangers, as Europe’s
    tragic history has demonstrated. The United States will not be the only
    country to pay the price for a return to such a world.

    THE NEW GUARD


    The consequences of the United States’ abdication of global leadership
    have not been overlooked abroad. If anything, Trump’s policies have
    highlighted how much other countries have invested in the rules-based
    order and what they stand to lose with its collapse. “The fact that our
    friend and ally has come to question the very worth of its mantle of
    global leadership puts in sharper focus the need for the rest of us to set
    our own clear and sovereign course,” said Chrystia Freeland, Canada’s
    foreign minister, early in Trump’s presidency.
    That recognition has driven repeated efforts by U.S. allies to placate
    Trump. They have looked for common ground despite deep substantive
    disagreements—not to mention Trump’s ham-handed tactics, petty
    insults, and unpopularity among their own citizens. But so far, these
    efforts to compromise haven’t worked, and they aren’t likely to for one
    simple reason: what U.S. allies want to save, Trump wants to upend.
    The United States’ friends and allies—with the G-9 countries in
    the lead—need to act more ambitiously. They must focus less on how
    to work with Washington and more on how to work without it—and,
    if necessary, around it. As German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas told
    a Japanese audience in Tokyo last July, “If we pool our strengths . . .
    we can become something like ‘rule shapers,’ who design and drive an
    international order that the world urgently needs.”
    Of the potential areas for G-9 cooperation, trade holds the greatest
    promise, as the G-9 pulls significant economic weight and has already
    looked for ways to blunt Trump’s protectionist policies. The G-9
    countries clearly have the capacity to push their point. Collectively,

    76 F O R E I G N A F FA I R S

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