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“They should be scared.” John Bolton, the former national security adviser to Donald Trump, says America’s president would sell out Taiwan for a trade deal with China. Watch the full interview with David Rennie, our Geopolitics editor, and see Mr Bolton dissect Mr Trump’s America-first foreign policy: https://econ.st/4ogjleu | The Economist

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