AGE OF ACCELERATION

WITH AI AND THE NEW AMERICAN PRESIDENT PUTTING THE WORLD IN A FLUX, A RANGE OF EMINENT FIGURES OUTLINED HOW TO DEAL WITH THE NEW WORLD ORDER

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AROON PURIE

Chairman & Editor-in-Chief, India Today Group

We are standing at a crossroads of history. As they say in the cowboy movies, there is a new sheriff in town. That is Donald J. Trump. And it's no small town. It is the United States of America. The world's largest economy and only superpower. And he's holding friend and foe alike at gunpoint to get a better deal.

He's bent on destroying the world order that America established after the Second World War in 1945. He's weaponising trade. He is claiming that America has been taken for a ride even by its allies. True to character, he's playing two contradictory roles. He has withdrawn America from international institutional frameworks like the WHO and the Paris Climate Accord, and I'm sure there will be more. If he perceives no financial gains for America, he wants out. On the other hand, he's behaving like a CEO of a multinational company who wants to make some acquisitions. He wants Canada to become America's 51st state, and wants to acquire the Panama Canal, Greenland and Gaza.