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American influence has dwindled under Donald Trump. It will not be simple to restore.
在特朗普治下，美國的影響力縮小了。要想恢復不是那么簡單。
A year ago this week Donald Trump was elected president.
一年前的這一周，特朗普當選總統。
Many people predicted that American foreign policy would take a disastrous turn.
很多人預測，美國外交政策會來個災難性的大轉彎。
Mr Trump had suggested that he would scrap trade deals, ditch allies, put a figurative bomb under the rules-based global order and drop literal ones willy-nilly.
特朗普已經放言，他會廢除貿易協議、拋棄盟友，會在以法律為基礎的全球秩序之下放置一枚具有象征意義的炸彈，雜亂無章地投下一批文字炸彈。
NATO was “obsolete”, he said; NAFTA was “the worst trade deal maybe ever” ; and America was far too nice to foreigners.
他聲稱，北約已經“過時”；NAFAT是“或許史上最爛的貿易協議”，美國人對外國人太善良了。
“In the old days when you won a war, you won a war. You kept the country,” he opined, adding later that he would “bomb the shit out of” Islamic State (IS) and “take the oil”.
他說：“過去，打贏了一場戰爭，就是贏了。你得到了這個國家。”之后，又補充說，他會把伊斯蘭國“炸出屎來”，然后“占領油田”。
So far, Mr Trump's foreign policy has been less awful than he promised.
到目前為止，特朗普的外交政策還不像他承諾的那樣糟糕。
Granted, he has pulled America out of the Paris accord, making it harder to curb climate change, and abandoned the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a big trade deal.
固然，他讓美國撤出了巴黎協定，使得遏制氣候變化更難了；他拋棄了TPP這個大型的貿易協定。
However, he has not retreated pell-mell into isolationism.
但是，他還沒有慌不擇路地退守孤立主義。
He has not quit NATO; indeed, some of America's eastern European allies prefer his tough-talk to the cool detachment of Barack Obama.
他還沒有退出北約；實際上，美國的一些東歐盟友更喜歡他的狠話，而不是奧巴馬的冷淡漠然。
He has not started any wars.
他還沒有開啟任何戰端。
He has stepped up America's defence of Afghanistan's beleaguered government, and helped Iraq recapture cities from IS.
他升級了美國對陷入困境的阿富汗政府的防衛，幫助伊拉克從伊斯蘭國手中奪回了一些城市。
In the parts of the world to which he pays little attention, such as Africa, an understaffed version of the previous administration's policy continues on autopilot.
在他很少關注的幾個世界地區中，如非洲，一種上屆政府政策的縮減版本在自行延續。
As Mr Trump makes a 12-day visit to Asia, it is hard to dismiss him as a man wholly disengaged from the world.
在特朗普對亞洲進行12天訪問之際，很難把他貶低為一位完全脫離這個世界的人。
