The prestigious US journal Foreign Affairs is promoting a new essay A Grand Strategy of Reciprocity by Oren Cass:
For decades, the United States bet on globalization and free markets—a wager it has lost, argues Oren Cass in a new essay from the forthcoming issue of Foreign Affairs. “Far from producing a utopia of shared prosperity and stable peace,” the international order Washington fostered “contributed to economic and social decay” at home, he writes.
And, lest we forget, widespread destruction and death abroad.
Instead, the United States should seek to build “a sustainable trading and security bloc” whose members are “committed to engaging with each other on comparable terms while jointly excluding others that will not fulfill the same obligations,” Cass writes. Countries hoping to join would have to “take primary responsibility for their own security,” pursue “balanced trade,” and shun China as a trading partner. With this “humbler and more realistic strategy,” Cass concludes, “Washington would finally be placing a bet that the United States can win.”
This sounds a lot like a US-led BRICS except that how can 'balanced trade' shun the world's largest producer of consumer goods, China?
So now countries will have to dance to the US tune while not getting any security from, currently, the world's most powerful nation.
Sounds like a bad deal to FNN and not one that Trump would go for if he was leading a country that wanted to join this bloc.