Donald Trump's attack on rules-based global order hurts his own people

Not in memory has an American president so willingly sundered the United States' relationship with its key allies

It is rare for high diplomacy to be accompanied by the extreme and public drama that surrounded the summit meeting of the G-7 economies in Canada this weekend. It is even rarer for a visual representation of that drama to become available to the outside world; but on this occasion one did present itself. The German chancellor’s office released a photograph of a truculent Donald Trump, sitting with his arms folded as his fellow leaders stood, leaned on a table for emphasis, or beseeched him to change his mind. It seemed that they had succeeded initially, when after a heated