Panel: Learning or repeating? America’s moment of reflection

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  This is World Today.

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  The American think tank concerned foreign relations has ranked the 10 best and worst decisions in U.S.

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  foreign policy history.

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  With the past as our guide, is Washington learning from history or repeating it?

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  Welcome to Road Today, the panel discussion with Miko Anna in Beijing.

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  U.S.

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  foreign policy has seen its share in controversy from violent westward expansion and interwar isolationism to numerous military interventions abroad.

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  The Council on Foreign Relations surveyed more than 350 members of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations,

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  asking them which decisions left the most enduring lexis for better or for worse.

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  The Marshall Plan and the creation of the United Nations topped the best list, the invasion of Iraq,

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  the Vietnam War, and the withdrawal from the Paris Agreement ranked among the worst.

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  Now, as Washington grows more skeptical of multilateralism,

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  reassesses alliance more transactionally,

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  and returns to tariffs and sanctions, history feels closer than never.

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  So what lessons and what warnings does American diplomatic past hold for today?

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  To explore this and more, joining us on the line...

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  Zun, a medical and research fellow at the Center for China and Globalization.

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  Joseph Mahoney, professor of politics and international relations at East China Normal University.

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  Liu Kuang-yu, researcher at Institute of Taiwan Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

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