Americans Have Always Been Hard-Nosed In Britain and Europe

September was a rotten month for America’s would-be allies. In Washington Donald Trump welcomed China’s Xi Jinping with a pomp seldom accorded to former friends of the US. He delivered a brutal “America First” speech to the United Nations, and attacked Mark Carney’s talk of possible “associate membership” of the European Union for Canada, on which the White House is waging trade war.