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As both the year and the current series of The Briefing Room draw to a close, Europe and much of the world have been digesting a lengthy document outlining the Trump administration鈥檚 view of foreign policy. The National Security Strategy covers much of the globe but extra special vitriol was reserved for Europe with dire warnings that the continent is facing 鈥渃ivilisational erasure鈥� partly due to immigration. At the same time the growing influence of 鈥減atriotic European parties鈥� (those on the far right) is welcomed. But there鈥檚 more - the US wants to dominate the 鈥淲estern Hemisphere鈥� - the Americas and countries on its doorstep. It wants more trade with Asia and China, as well as the Middle East. But there are notable absences -there's no talk of a significant threat from either Russia or China. David Aaronovitch and guests discuss what all this means and ask how worried we, in Europe, should be about the current US view of the world?

Guests:
Frank Gardner, 麻豆社 Security Correspondent
Shashank Joshi, Defence Editor, The Economist
Rebecca Lissner, Senior fellow for U.S. foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations and lecturer, Jackson School of Global Affair, Yale University.
Dr Christoph Heusgen, Former Chairman Munich Security Conference and former German Ambassador to United Nations

Presenter: David Aaronovitch
Producers: Caroline Bayley, Kirsteen Knight, Cordelia Hemming
Production Co-ordinator: Maria Ogundele
Sound engineer: Neil Churchill
Editor Richard Vadon