Ben Bland is the director of the Asia-Pacific Programme at Chatham House and the author of books including "Man of Contradictions: Joko Widodo and the Struggle to Remake Indonesia."
Slapping tariffs on friends and foes, pulling out of international organizations and agreements, and bullying allies. Nothing that U.S. President Donald Trump has done in his first weeks back in power should have surprised anyone. He has been saying he would do all this, and more, ever since he emerged as the Republican Party presidential candidate in 2016.
