“‘It strikes me that we are in the middle of an unprecedented and multifaceted experiment in the application of brute force,’ said Daniel Russel, who was assistant secretary of state on Asian affairs in the Obama administration. ‘President Trump has been extraordinarily effective at generating leverage… but it has yet to be shown that he has the ability to translate that leverage into results that are advantageous to the United States or are durable.'”
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