中美贸易战！回顾纽约时报刊载的川普外交政策演说

2018年3月23日星期五

演讲提纲

1. 2016年4月28日，《纽约时报》全文刊登了川普在国家利益基金组织聚会上的讲话

2. 川普在讲话中就美国的国际政策走向进行了回顾，计划和展望

3. 今天读起来，不管对“美国第一”有何种看法，这句话已经在现实地影响我们的生活

4. 川普在演讲中还明确指出，以往美国政府认为自己可以把非民主国家影响成西方民主国家的路线是错误的

图片来自《纽约时报》

终于，川普还是挑起了中美贸易大战。此刻，再回首看他2016年春天在华盛顿发表的外交政策演讲，耐人寻味。

如果你一直对川普的文化水平有各种不满，也不要太难过。他的演讲稿一般是法学院高材生出身的文官写的。这篇讲稿现在看，跟2016年时候感觉是否不一样？

公平起见，陌上君以后也会翻译希拉里的演讲，她今年夏天会回其母校耶鲁做毕业典礼致辞。

中文翻译

感谢国家利益中心邀请我有机会做这次演讲。真是非常荣幸。今天我想谈谈如何为我国制定一个新的外交政策方向，一个用目的性取代随机性，用战略取代意识形态，以及用和平取代混乱的全新方式。
现在是时候摆脱美国生锈的外交政策了。现在是时候邀请新的声音和新的愿景入场了，这是我们必须要做的。我今天要概述的方向也将使我们回到永恒的原则。 我的外交政策将始终把美国人民的利益和美国的安全放在首位。它必须是第一。必须。
这将是我做出的每一个决定的基础。
美国第一将是我的政府的主要和压倒一切的主题。但为了规划我们的前进道路，我们必须首先简要回顾一下。我们有很多值得骄傲的东西。
在20世纪40年代，我们拯救了世界。最伟大的一代击败了纳粹和日本帝国主义者。然后我们再次拯救了这个世界。这一次，来自极权主义和共产主义。冷战持续了数十年，但猜猜看，我们赢了，我们大胜。民主党人和共和党人一起合作，让戈尔巴乔夫先生听取了我们伟大的总统里根总统的话，他说，拆掉这堵墙。

（掌声）

历史不会忘记他所做的。一个非常特别的人和总统。不幸的是，冷战之后，我们的外交政策严重偏离了实际。我们未能为新的时代制定新的远景。事实上，随着时间的推移，我们的外交政策开始变得越来越不合理。逻辑被愚蠢和傲慢所取代，这导致了一场又一场的外交政策的灾难。
他们只是不停地犯错误。我们错误出兵伊拉克，然后是埃及，利比亚，再到奥巴马总统派兵叙利亚沙地。这些行动都导致将当地推向混乱局面，并为ISIS提供了发展壮大所需的空间。很坏。这一切始于一个危险的想法，即我们可以让世界各地的非民主国家改造成为西方式的民主国家。
我们摧毁了他们原本的政权，然后我们被自己所释放的幽灵震惊。内战，宗教狂热，成千上万的美国人在当地遇难，生命，生命，生命都被牺牲了。可怕的浪费。结果造成了数万亿美元的损失。填补真空的却是ISIS这种恐怖组织。伊朗的权贵阶级也匆匆进入并填补这一空白，以致不公平不公正再次充斥社会。
他们从中得意，我们却非常伤心地事与愿违。我们的外交政策是一场完整而彻底的灾难。没有远见。没有目的。没有方向。没有策略。今天我想指出我们现在的外交政策中的五个主要弱点。
首先，我们的资源已经过度分散了。奥巴马总统削弱了我们的军队，削弱了我们的经济。他以浪费的开支，大量的债务，低增长，巨大的贸易赤字和开放的边界使我们几乎陷入瘫痪。我们与世界的制造业贸易逆差现在每年接近1万亿美元。
我们正在通过削弱自己国家的方式帮助振兴其他国家。结束美国就业机会的流失将为我们提供资源，帮助我们重建我们的军队，这些必须做到并让国家重新获得财政独立和经济强大。我是这次竞选中，唯一一位理解这一点的总统候选人。这是一个严重的问题。
我是唯一一个—相信我，我知道他们，我是唯一知道如何解决这些问题的人。

（掌声）

其次，我们的盟友没有公平地支付他们的份额，而且我最近在讨论这个问题。我们的盟友必须为他们的财政，政治和人力成本做出贡献，必须为此付出相应的代价。但其中许多根本就没有这样做。
他们认为美国是软弱和宽容的，并且没有义务履行与我们的协议。例如，在北约，28个成员国中，除美国以外只有4个国家的国防开支达到了占国民生产总值2％的最低要求。随着时间的推移，我们已经花费了数万亿美元用于飞机，导弹，舰艇，装备，建立军队，为欧洲和亚洲提供强有力的防御。
我们所帮助捍卫的国家必须自己提供这些国防经费，如果做不到，美国就只能让这些国家独立解决他们自己的国防大计。我们别无选择。

（掌声）

如果我们的盟友尽全力支持我们的共同防务和安全，整个世界将更安全。川普政府将领导一个自由的世界，这个世界有力地被武装和资助，而且资金充足。
第三，我们的朋友开始认为他们不能依靠我们。我们有一位总统不喜欢我们的朋友，对我们的敌人鞠躬，这是我们国家历史上从未见过的事情。他与伊朗谈了一个灾难性的交易，然后我们看到他们几乎在签约的墨水还没干之前就开始不遵守条款。伊朗不能拥有核武器，不能被允许。请记住，不允许拥有核武器。

（掌声）

在未来川普政府的时代，决不会允许(伊朗)拥有核武器。

（掌声）

在对伊谈话中，甚至没有提到伊朗对我们十名被俘的海军的羞辱 - 我至今还生动地记得那天。在谈判中，你必须付出努力去争取自己的利益。像许多最糟糕的协议一样，伊朗协议是为了谈判而谈判造成的结果。
当对方知道你不会全力以赴地争取的时，赢得胜利是绝对不可能的 - 你无法赢得胜利。同时，你的朋友需要知道你会坚持你与他们达成的协议。你已经达成了这个协议，你必须支持它，世界将会变得更加美好。奥巴马总统捣乱了我们的导弹防御计划，然后放弃了与波兰和捷克共和国的导弹防御计划。埃及前政权与以色列签署了长期和平条约，奥巴马却支持该政权下台，然后帮助穆斯林兄弟会取代其权力。
我们伟大的朋友以及中东唯一真正的民主国家以色列，已经被一个缺乏道德准则的政府所蔑视和批评。就在几天前，副总统拜登再次批评以色列这个正义与和平的力量，说它是该地区一个缺乏耐心的国家。
奥巴马总统对以色列并不友好。他以温柔的爱心和关怀对待伊朗，并使之成为一个强大的力量。由于我们所做的一切，伊朗的确在很短的时间内成为了非常强大的力量。所有的费用和代价则是在牺牲以色列—我们在该地区美国非常重要的盟友，也相当于在牺牲我们美国自身。
我们选择了与最老的朋友斗，现在他们开始往别处寻求帮助。请记住。不好。
第四，我们的对手不再敬畏我们。事实上，他们和我们的盟友一样困惑，但更大的问题是他们不再认真对待我们。事实是他们不尊重我们。当奥巴马总统乘坐空军一号降落古巴时，没有任何领导人在场，没有人问候他。
也许这是空军一号在其悠久有声望的历史上从没有先例的事件。令人惊讶的是，在沙特阿拉伯也发生过同样的事情。这被称为不尊重。绝对不尊重。
你还记得(奥巴马)总统经过长途跋涉到达丹麦哥本哈根，代表我们国家出席奥运会吗？在这场无先例的努力之后，美国被宣布排在第四位？这次访问的美国总统 - 史无前例 - 让美国排在第四位。在得到这样令人尴尬的结果之前，他应该知道结果。我们在世界各地被嘲笑，这种情况已经发生很多次了。
此类羞辱的事件还有更多。奥巴马总统无奈地看着朝鲜增加其核力量并扩张它的影响力。我们的总统允许中国继续抢走美国的就业机会和对财富进行经济掠夺，拒绝通过对中国进行贸易施压，以达到牵制中国控制朝鲜的目的。我们其实有斡旋的条件。我们对中国有控制影响力，有经济上的便利力量，但人们不理解这个。凭借这种经济施压，我们可以控制住局面，我们可以让他们与朝鲜谈条件，而不是像现在这样往失控的发展走。
他甚至允许中国利用网络攻击窃取美国政府机密，并参与对美国及其公司的商业间谍活动。我们已经让我们的竞争对手和挑战者认为他们可以逃脱任何事情，而他们也的确可以轻易做到。这类事情总是发生。如果奥巴马总统的目标是削弱美国，没有比他更有效率的了。
最后，美国对我们的外交政策目标不再有清晰的认识。自冷战结束和苏联解体以来，我们缺乏连贯一致的外交政策。一会，我们轰炸利比亚，摆脱独裁者，为平民培养民主。一会，我们观察到同一群平民遭受痛苦，同时这个国家陷入分崩离析。生命流失，大量金钱流失。世界是一个各地情况不同的地方。
我们是一个人道主义国家，但奥巴马 - 克林顿干预的遗产将带来弱点，困扰和混乱，一团糟。我们让中东变得比以往更加不稳定和混乱。我们没有保护好那里的基督徒，让他们受到了迫害甚至种族灭绝残杀。

（掌声）

优美的分割线。。。

（陌上君被这个演讲中川普表现出来的话痨能量给震惊了，没人告诉过咱他能做这么长的报道

。到这里才翻译完大概一半。从蓝色英文字体部分开始，后面是选择性翻译。相应被翻译的英文用黑色字体显示。）

接着，川普在演讲中严厉抨击了奥巴马和希拉里，并承诺自己如果能当选，将推出系列计划。他说：

首先，我们需要一个长期计划来制止激进伊斯兰教的传播和蔓延。遏制激进伊斯兰教的蔓延必须成为美国乃至世界的主要外交政策目标。可能需要使用武力，但这也是一场意识形态的斗争，就像我们在冷战中的长期斗争一样。
在这方面，我们将与我们在穆斯林世界的盟友紧密合作，所有这些都面临激进的伊斯兰暴力，袭击和其他一切风险。这是一个危险的世界，现在比以往更加危险。
我们应该行动 - 谢谢你们。

（掌声）

在涉及美中俄关系部分，川普认为：

我们渴望与俄罗斯和中国和平共处，并与之友好。我们与这两个国家存在严重分歧，必须睁大眼睛看待它们，但我们不一定会成为敌人。我们应该在共同利益的基础上寻求共同点。
例如，俄罗斯也看到了伊斯兰恐怖主义的极端。我认为，缓和紧张局势，改善与俄罗斯的关系从实际上来说是可能的，绝对有可能。常识来说这个周期，美俄之间那种可怕的敌意循环必须结束，理想情况下很快就会结束。对两个国家都好。
有人说俄罗斯人是不可以合作的。我打算尝试。如果我们不能在我的政府期内达成协议，一个对美国来说不错的交易，同时对俄罗斯也有好处，那么我们将很快放弃谈判。就这么简单。我们将会很快知道结果。
解决我们与中国的关系是另一个重要的步骤 - 并且真的要创造一个更加繁荣的时期。中国尊重强大，但是美国过去让他们在经济上利用了我们，他们所得到的便利前所未有，我们在此过程中已经失去优势和他们的尊重。
我们与中国之间存在巨大的贸易逆差，我们必须迅速找到一个办法去平衡。一个强大而聪明的美国是一个能与中国建立更好友谊的美国，比现在要做得更好。看看中国在南中国海正在做什么。他们不应该这样做。
即使不尊重这个国家或他们的领袖，我们一样可以建立互惠的关系，或者我们都可以按各自的体制走。如果有必要，那样也可以接受。
在我当选总统后，我还会呼吁与北约盟国举行首脑会议，并与我们的亚洲盟友单独举行首脑会议。在这些峰会上，我们不仅讨论财政承诺的再平衡，而且重新审视如何采取新战略来应对我们的共同挑战。例如，我们将讨论如何升级北约过时的冷战使命和结构，以应对包括移民和伊斯兰恐怖主义在内的共同挑战。

（掌声）

在川普讲话的最后，他呼喊：

一直—一直，一直，我们必须努力，我们必须从各个角度来行动，我们别无选择，我们必须让美国再次受到尊重。我们必须使美国真正再富有。我们必须 —我们必须使美国变得美好。如果我们这样做—如果我们这样做了，也许这个世纪可能是世界迄今为止最和平和最繁荣的时期。非常感谢大家。我很感激。谢谢。

（掌声）

非常感谢你们。

（掌声）

感谢。

（演讲结束）

英文原文

This is a transcript of Donald J. Trump’s foreign policy remarks, as transcribed by the Federal News Service.

Thank you for the opportunity to speak to you, and thank you to the Center for National Interest for honoring me with this invitation. It truly is a great honor. I’d like to talk today about how to develop a new foreign policy direction for our country, one that replaces randomness with purpose, ideology with strategy, and chaos with peace.

It’s time to shake the rust off America’s foreign policy. It’s time to invite new voices and new visions into the fold, something we have to do. The direction I will outline today will also return us to a timeless principle. My foreign policy will always put the interests of the American people and American security above all else. It has to be first. Has to be.

That will be the foundation of every single decision that I will make.

America First will be the major and overriding theme of my administration. But to chart our path forward, we must first briefly take a look back. We have a lot to be proud of.

In the 1940s we saved the world. The greatest generation beat back the Nazis and Japanese imperialists. Then we saved the world again. This time, from totalitarianism and communism. The Cold War lasted for decades but, guess what, we won and we won big. Democrats and Republicans working together got Mr. Gorbachev to heed the words of President Reagan, our great president, when he said, tear down this wall.

(APPLAUSE)

History will not forget what he did. A very special man and president. Unfortunately, after the Cold War our foreign policy veered badly off course. We failed to develop a new vision for a new time. In fact, as time went on, our foreign policy began to make less and less sense. Logic was replaced with foolishness and arrogance, which led to one foreign policy disaster after another.

They just kept coming and coming. We went from mistakes in Iraq to Egypt to Libya, to President Obama’s line in the sand in Syria. Each of these actions have helped to throw the region into chaos and gave ISIS the space it needs to grow and prosper. Very bad. It all began with a dangerous idea that we could make western democracies out of countries that had no experience or interests in becoming a western democracy.

We tore up what institutions they had and then were surprised at what we unleashed. Civil war, religious fanaticism, thousands of Americans and just killed be lives, lives, lives wasted. Horribly wasted. Many trillions of dollars were lost as a result. The vacuum was created that ISIS would fill. Iran, too, would rush in and fill that void much to their really unjust enrichment.

They have benefited so much, so sadly, for us. Our foreign policy is a complete and total disaster. No vision. No purpose. No direction. No strategy. Today I want to identify five main weaknesses in our foreign policy.

First, our resources are totally over extended. President Obama has weakened our military by weakening our economy. He’s crippled us with wasteful spending, massive debt, low growth, a huge trade deficit and open borders. Our manufacturing trade deficit with the world is now approaching $1 trillion a year.

We’re rebuilding other countries while weakening our own. Ending the theft of American jobs will give us resources we need to rebuild our military, which has to happen and regain our financial independence and strength. I am the only person running for the presidency who understands this and this is a serious problem.

I’m the only one — believe me, I know them all, I’m the only one who knows how to fix it.

(APPLAUSE)

Secondly, our allies are not paying their fair share, and I’ve been talking about this recently a lot. Our allies must contribute toward their financial, political, and human costs, have to do it, of our tremendous security burden. But many of them are simply not doing so.

They look at the United States as weak and forgiving and feel no obligation to honor their agreements with us. In NATO, for instance, only 4 of 28 other member countries besides America, are spending the minimum required 2 percent of GDP on defense. We have spent trillions of dollars over time on planes, missiles, ships, equipment, building up our military to provide a strong defense for Europe and Asia.

The countries we are defending must pay for the cost of this defense, and if not, the U.S. must be prepared to let these countries defend themselves. We have no choice.

(APPLAUSE)

The whole world will be safer if our allies do their part to support our common defense and security. A Trump administration will lead a free world that is properly armed and funded, and funded beautifully.

Thirdly, our friends are beginning to think they can’t depend on us. We’ve had a president who dislikes our friends and bows to our enemies, something that we’ve never seen before in the history of our country. He negotiated a disastrous deal with Iran, and then we watched them ignore its terms even before the ink was dry. Iran cannot be allowed to have a nuclear weapon, cannot be allowed. Remember that, cannot be allowed to have a nuclear weapon.

(APPLAUSE)

And under a Trump administration, will never, ever be allowed to have that nuclear weapon.

(APPLAUSE)

All of this without even mentioning the humiliation of the United States with Iran’s treatment of our ten captured sailors — so vividly I remember that day. In negotiation, you must be willing to walk. The Iran deal, like so many of our worst agreements, is the result of not being willing to leave the table.

When the other side knows you’re not going to walk, it becomes absolutely impossible to win — you just can’t win. At the same time, your friends need to know that you will stick by the agreements that you have with them. You’ve made that agreement, you have to stand by it and the world will be a better place. President Obama gutted our missile defense program and then abandoned our missile defense plans with Poland and the Czech Republic. He supported the ouster of a friendly regime in Egypt that had a longstanding peace treaty with Israel, and then helped bring the Muslim Brotherhood to power in its place.

Israel, our great friend and the one true democracy in the Middle East has been snubbed and criticized by an administration that lacks moral clarity. Just a few days ago, Vice President Biden again criticized Israel, a force for justice and peace, for acting as an impatient peace area in the region.

President Obama has not been a friend to Israel. He has treated Iran with tender love and care and made it a great power. Iran has, indeed, become a great, great power in just a very short period of time, because of what we’ve done. All of the expense and all at the expense of Israel, our allies in the region and very importantly, the United States itself.

We’ve picked fights with our oldest friends, and now they’re starting to look elsewhere for help. Remember that. Not good.

Fourth, our rivals no longer respect us. In fact, they’re just as confused as our allies, but in an even bigger problem is they don’t take us seriously anymore. The truth is they don’t respect us. When President Obama landed in Cuba on Air Force One, no leader was there, nobody, to greet him.

Perhaps an incident without precedent in the long and prestigious history of Air Force One. Then amazingly, the same thing happened in Saudi Arabia. It’s called no respect. Absolutely no respect.

Do you remember when the president made a long and expensive trip to Copenhagen, Denmark, to get the Olympics for our country, and after this unprecedented effort, it was announced that the United States came in fourth — fourth place? The president of the United States making this trip — unprecedented — comes in fourth place. He should have known the result before making such an embarrassing commitment. We were laughed at all over the world, as we have been many, many times.

The list of humiliations go on and on and on. President Obama watches helplessly as North Korea increases its aggression and expands further and further with its nuclear reach. Our president has allowed China to continue its economic assault on American jobs and wealth, refusing to enforce trade deals and apply leverage on China necessary to rein in North Korea. We have the leverage. We have the power over China, economic power, and people don’t understand it. And with that economic power, we can rein in and we can get them to do what they have to do with North Korea, which is totally out of control.

He has even allowed China to steal government secrets with cyber attacks and engaged in industrial espionage against the United States and its companies. We’ve let our rivals and challengers think they can get away with anything, and they do. They do at will. It always happens. If President Obama’s goal had been to weaken America, he could not have done a better job.

Finally, America no longer has a clear understanding of our foreign policy goals. Since the end of the Cold War and the breakup of the Soviet Union, we’ve lacked a coherent foreign policy. One day, we’re bombing Libya and getting rid of a dictator to foster democracy for civilians. The next day, we’re watching the same civilians suffer while that country falls and absolutely falls apart. Lives lost, massive moneys lost. The world is a different place.

We’re a humanitarian nation, but the legacy of the Obama-Clinton interventions will be weakness, confusion and disarray, a mess. We’ve made the Middle East more unstable and chaotic than ever before. We left Christians subject to intense persecution and even genocide.

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We have done nothing to help the Christians, nothing, and we should always be ashamed for that, for that lack of action. Our actions in Iraq, Libya and Syria have helped unleash ISIS, and we’re in a war against radical Islam, but President Obama won’t even name the enemy, and unless you name the enemy, you will never ever solve the problem.

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Hillary Clinton also refuses to say the words radical Islam, even as she pushes for a massive increase in refugees coming into our country. After Secretary Clinton’s failed intervention in Libya, Islamic terrorists in Benghazi took down our consulate and killed our ambassador and three brave Americans. Then, instead of taking charge that night, Hillary Clinton decided to go home and sleep. Incredible.

Clinton blames it all on a video, an excuse that was a total lie, proven to be absolutely a total lie. Our ambassador was murdered and our secretary of state misled the nation. And, by the way, she was not awake to take that call at 3 o’clock in the morning. And now ISIS is making millions and millions of dollars a week selling Libya oil. And you know what? We don’t blockade, we don’t bomb, we don’t do anything about it. It’s almost as if our country doesn’t even know what’s happening, which could be a fact and could be true. This will all change when I become president.

To our friends and allies, I say America is going to be strong again. America is going to be reliable again. It’s going to be a great and reliable ally again. It’s going to be a friend again. We’re going to finally have a coherent foreign policy based upon American interests and the shared interests of our allies.

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We’re getting out of the nation-building business and instead focusing on creating stability in the world. Our moments of greatest strength came when politics ended at the water’s edge. We need a new rational American foreign policy, informed by the best minds and supported by both parties, and it will be by both parties — Democrats, Republicans, independents, everybody, as well as by our close allies.

This is how we won the Cold War and it’s how we will win our new future struggles, which may be many, which may be complex, but we will win if I become president.

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First, we need a long-term plan to halt the spread and reach of radical Islam. Containing the spread of radical Islam must be a major foreign policy goal of the United States and indeed the world. Events may require the use of military force, but it’s also a philosophical struggle, like our long struggle in the Cold War.

In this, we’re going to be working very closely with our allies in the Muslim world, all of which are at risk from radical Islamic violence, attacks and everything else. It is a dangerous world, more dangerous now than it has ever been.

We should work — thank you.

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We should work together with any nation in the region that is threatened by the rise of radical Islam. But this has to be a two-way street. They must also be good to us. Remember that. They have to be good to us, no longer one way. It’s now two-way. And remember, us and all we’re doing, they have to appreciate what we’ve done to them. We’re going to help, but they have to appreciate what we’ve done for them. The struggle against radical Islam also takes place in our homeland. There are scores of recent migrants inside our borders charged with terrorism. For every case known to the public, there are dozens and dozens more. We must stop importing extremism through senseless immigration policies. We have no idea where these people are coming from. There’s no documentation. There’s no paperwork. There’s nothing. We have to be smart. We have to be vigilant.

A pause for reassessment will help us to prevent the next San Bernardino or frankly, much worse. All you have to do is look at the World Trade Center and September 11th, one of the great catastrophes, in my opinion, the single greatest military catastrophe in the history of our country; worse than Pearl Harbor because you take a look at what’s happened, and citizens were attacked, as opposed to the military being attacked — one of the true great catastrophes.

And then there’s ISIS. I have a simple message for them. Their days are numbered. I won’t tell them where and I won’t tell them how. We must...

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... we must as a nation be more unpredictable. We are totally predictable. We tell everything. We’re sending troops. We tell them. We’re sending something else. We have a news conference. We have to be unpredictable. And we have to be unpredictable starting now.

But they’re going to be gone. ISIS will be gone if I’m elected president. And they’ll be gone quickly. They will be gone very, very quickly.

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Secondly, we have to rebuild our military and our economy. The Russians and Chinese have rapidly expanded their military capability, but look at what’s happened to us. Our nuclear weapons arsenal, our ultimate deterrent, has been allowed to atrophy and is desperately in need of modernization and renewal. And it has to happen immediately. Our active duty armed forces have shrunk from 2 million in 1991 to about 1.3 million today. The Navy has shrunk from over 500 ships to 272 ships during this same period of time. The Air Force is about one-third smaller than 1991. Pilots flying B-52s in combat missions today. These planes are older than virtually everybody in this room.

And what are we doing about this? President Obama has proposed a 2017 defense budget that in real dollars, cuts nearly 25 percent from what we were spending in 2011. Our military is depleted and we’re asking our generals and military leaders to worry about global warming.

We will spend what we need to rebuild our military. It is the cheapest, single investment we can make. We will develop, build and purchase the best equipment known to mankind. Our military dominance must be unquestioned, and I mean unquestioned, by anybody and everybody.

But we will look for savings and spend our money wisely. In this time of mounting debt, right now we have so much debt that nobody even knows how to address the problem. But I do. No one dollar can be wasted. Not one single dollar can we waste. We’re also going to have to change our trade, immigration and economic policies to make our economy strong again. And to put Americans first again.

This will ensure that our own workers, right here in America, get the jobs and higher pay that will grow our tax revenues, increase our economic might as a nation, make us strong financially again. So, so important. We need to think smart about areas where our technological superiority, and nobody comes close, gives us an edge.

This includes 3D printing, artificial intelligence and cyber warfare. A great country also takes care of its warriors. Our commitment to them is absolute, and I mean absolute. A Trump administration will give our servicemen and women the best equipment and support in the world when they serve and where they serve. And the best care in the world when they return as veterans and they come back home to civilian life. Our veterans...

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Our veterans have not been treated fairly or justly. These are our great people and we must treat them fairly. We must even treat them really, really well and that will happen under the Trump administration.

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Finally, we must develop a foreign policy based on American interests. Businesses do not succeed when they lose sight of their core interests and neither do countries. Look at what happened in the 1990s. Our embassies in Kenya and Tanzania — and this was a horrible time for us — were attacked. and 17 brave sailors were killed on the U.S.S. Cole.

And what did we do? It seemed we put more effort into adding China into the World Trade organization, which has been a total disaster for the United States. Frankly, we spent more time on that than we did in stopping Al Qaeda. We even had an opportunity to take out Osama bin Laden and we didn’t do it

And then we got hit at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Again, the worst attack on our country in its history. Our foreign policy goals must be based on America’s core national security interests. And the following will be my priorities.

In the Middle East our goals must be, and I mean must be, to defeat terrorists and promote regional stability, not radical change. We need to be clearsighted about the groups that will never be anything other than enemies. And believe me, we have groups that no matter what you do, they will be the enemy.: We have to be smart enough to recognize who those groups are, who those people are, and not help them. And we must only be generous to those that prove they are indeed our friends.

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We desire to live peacefully and in friendship with Russia and China. We have serious differences with these two nations, and must regard them with open eyes, but we are not bound to be adversaries. We should seek common ground based on shared interests.

Russia, for instance, has also seen the horror of Islamic terrorism. I believe an easing of tensions, and improved relations with Russia from a position of strength only is possible, absolutely possible. Common sense says this cycle, this horrible cycle of hostility must end and ideally will end soon. Good for both countries.

Some say the Russians won’t be reasonable. I intend to find out. If we can’t make a deal under my administration, a deal that’s great — not good, great — for America, but also good for Russia, then we will quickly walk from the table. It’s as simple as that. We’re going to find out.

Fixing our relations with China is another important step — and really toward creating an even more prosperous period of time. China respects strength and by letting them take advantage of us economically, which they are doing like never before, we have lost all of their respect.

We have a massive trade deficit with China, a deficit that we have to find a way quickly, and I mean quickly, to balance. A strong and smart America is an America that will find a better friend in China, better than we have right now. Look at what China is doing in the South China Sea. They’re not supposed to be doing it.

No respect for this country or this president. We can both benefit or we can both go our separate ways. If need be, that’s what’s going to have to happen.

After I’m elected president, I will also call for a summit with our NATO allies and a separate summit with our Asian allies. In these summits, we will not only discuss a rebalancing of financial commitments, but take a fresh look at how we can adopt new strategies for tackling our common challenges. For instance, we will discuss how we can upgrade NATO’s outdated mission and structure, grown out of the Cold War to confront our shared challenges, including migration and Islamic terrorism.

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I will not hesitate to deploy military force when there is no alternative. But if America fights, it must only fight to win.

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I will never sent our finest into battle unless necessary, and I mean absolutely necessary, and will only do so if we have a plan for victory with a capital V.

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Our goal is peace and prosperity, not war and destruction. The best way to achieve those goals is through a disciplined, deliberate and consistent foreign policy. With President Obama and Secretary Clinton we’ve had the exact opposite — a reckless, rudderless and aimless foreign policy, one that has blazed the path of destruction in its wake.

After losing thousands of lives and spending trillions of dollars, we are in far worst shape in the Middle East than ever, ever before. I challenge anyone to explain the strategic foreign policy vision of Obama/Clinton. It has been a complete and total disaster.

I will also be prepared to deploy America’s economic resources. Financial leverage and sanctions can be very, very persuasive, but we need to use them selectively and with total determination. Our power will be used if others do not play by the rules. In other words, if they do not treat us fairly. Our friends and enemies must know that if I draw a line in the sand, I will enforce that line in the sand. Believe me.

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However, unlike other candidates for the presidency, war and aggression will not be my first instinct. You cannot have a foreign policy without diplomacy. A superpower understands that caution and restraint are really truly signs of strength. Although not in government service, I was totally against the war in Iraq, very proudly, saying for many years that it would destabilize the Middle East. Sadly, I was correct, and the biggest beneficiary has been has been Iran, who is systematically taking over Iraq and gaining access to their very rich oil reserves, something it has wanted to do for decades.

And now, to top it off, we have ISIS. My goal is to establish a foreign policy that will endure for several generations. That’s why I also look and have to look for talented experts with approaches and practical ideas, rather than surrounding myself with those who have perfect résumés but very little to brag about except responsibility for a long history of failed policies and continued losses at war. We have to look to new people.

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We have to look to new people because many of the old people frankly don’t know what they’re doing, even though they may look awfully good writing in The New York Times or being watched on television.

Finally, I will work with our allies to reinvigorate Western values and institutions. Instead of trying to spread universal values that not everybody shares or wants, we should understand that strengthening and promoting Western civilization and its accomplishments will do more to inspire positive reforms around the world than military interventions.

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These are my goals as president. I will seek a foreign policy that all Americans, whatever their party, can support, so important, and which our friends and allies will respect and totally welcome. The world must know that we do not go abroad in search of enemies, that we are always happy when old enemies become friends and when old friends become allies, that’s what we want. We want them to be our allies.

We want the world to be — we want to bring peace to the world. Too much destruction out there, too many destructive weapons. The power of weaponry is the single biggest problem that we have today in the world.

To achieve these goals, Americans must have confidence in their country and its leadership. Again, many Americans must wonder why we our politicians seem more interested in defending the borders of foreign countries than in defending their own. Americans.

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Americans must know that we’re putting the American people first again on trade.

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So true. On trade, on immigration, on foreign policy. The jobs, incomes and security of the American worker will always be my first priority.

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No country has ever prospered that failed to put its own interests first. Both our friends and our enemies put their countries above ours and we, while being fair to them, must start doing the same. We will no longer surrender this country or its people to the false song of globalism. The nation-state remains the true foundation for happiness and harmony. I am skeptical of international unions that tie us up and bring America down and will never enter.

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And under my administration, we will never enter America into any agreement that reduces our ability to control our own affairs.

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NAFTA, as an example, has been a total disaster for the United States and has emptied our states — literally emptied our states of our manufacturing and our jobs. And I’ve just gotten to see it. I’ve toured Pennsylvania. I’ve toured New York. I’ve toured so many of the states. They have been cleaned out. Their manufacturing is gone.

Never again, only the reverse — and I have to say this strongly — never again; only the reverse will happen. We will keep our jobs and bring in new ones. There will be consequences for the companies that leave the United States only to exploit it later. They fire the people. They take advantage of the United States. There will be consequences for those companies. Never again.

Under a Trump administration, no American citizen will ever again feel that their needs come second to the citizens of a foreign country.

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I will view as president the world through the clear lens of American interests. I will be America’s greatest defender and most loyal champion. We will not apologize for becoming successful again, but will instead embrace the unique heritage that makes us who we are.

The world is most peaceful and most prosperous when America is strongest. America will continue and continue forever to play the role of peacemaker. We will always help save lives and indeed humanity itself, but to play the role, we must make America strong again.

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And always — always, always, we must make, and we have to look at it from every angle, and we have no choice, we must make America respected again. We must make America truly wealthy again. And we must — we have to and we will make America great again. And if we do that — and if we do that, perhaps this century can be the most peaceful and prosperous the world has ever, ever known. Thank you very much, everybody. I appreciate it. Thank you.

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Thank you very much.

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Thank you.

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