Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- January 27. 2017

Michael Grunwald, Politico: Trump’s Yuge Week One

What really mattered, and what didn’t.

President Donald Trump’s first seven days in office were historic, chaotic, often astonishing and sometimes unsettling. With a flurry of provocative executive orders, surreal events, unapologetic falsehoods and did-he-really-say-that tweets, Trump continued to obliterate political norms, serving notice that the gaze of history won’t change who he is. He made so much news and did so many unorthodox things that it was hard to keep track of everything that was changing in Washington. The question, though, is what did all that sound and fury signify?

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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- January 27. 2017

Surprise! Trump doing what he said he would -- Jordan Fabian and Jonathan Easley, The Hill

America Needs a Strong Partnership With Mexico -- Ana Quintana, RCW

Here’s What the US Imports From Mexico – and Who Would Pay Trump’s 20% Tax -- Robert Garver, Fiscal Times

Don’t Expect Mexico’s Elites to Stand Up to Trump -- Greg Grandin, The Nation

America Is Already Paying for the Wall With Mexico: How Trump made an enemy -- Jorge Guajardo, The Atlantic

Trump’s Foreign-Policy Revolution -- Charles Krauthammer, NRO

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/444321/trump-foreign-policy-isolationsim-america-first-allies-nato-trans-pacific-partnership

Trump's hopes for Syria safe zones may force decision on Assad -- Phil Stewart, Reuters

Hamas and Israel: Can they do a deal? -- Upfront/Jazeera

China's gamble for global supremacy in era of Trump -- Carrie Gracie, BBC

Xi’s the boss: China’s leadership transition -- Foreign Brief

Afghanistan: Taliban At The Gates (Video) -- 101 East/Al Jazeera

Thawing the permafrost with Russia: There are good reasons to work with Vladimir Putin against a shared threat -- Evgeny Lebedev, Washington Times

Will Trump Outsmart Putin? Or Will Putin Outsmart Trump? -- Maxim Trudolyubov, Newsweek

What Trump didn’t say about the Trans-Pacific Partnership -- Robert Boxwell, Reuters

Mrs May goes to Washington -- Jeremy Shapiro, European Council on Foreign Relations