Trump Has Adopted Successful Multilateral Approach to China Challenges: State Department Official

Then-President Donald Trump (C), then- Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (L), and then-Vice President Mike Pence, take a question during the daily briefing on the novel coronavirus at the White House in Washington on April 8, 2020. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images

Peter Berkowitz, director of policy planning at the State Department, recently defended the Donald Trump administration’s foreign policy, saying that people who accused the president of being a unilateralist or isolationist have misunderstood how multilateralism works.

At the center of Trump’s multilateral approach was his method of dealing with challenges posed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), said Berkowitz during a Nov. 30 discussion hosted by the Washington-based think tank Hudson Institute.