https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/02/donald-trump-appease-oppose-nations-governments-reacting

Appease or oppose? How the world's nations are reacting to Trump

As a new era of international relations dawns, governments are scrambling to calculate where their own interests lie

Simon Tisdall

Thursday 2 February 2017

The question of how to handle Donald Trump is proving to be a major headache for governments around the world, and there is no agreement on how best to do it. The shared fear, reflected across the international community, is that everything that can go wrong, will go wrong.
The explosive row between Trump and Australia’s prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, is a prime example of how things can suddenly go south. Ignoring the possible negative impact on a key US strategic alliance, Trump told the Australian leader a refugee resettlement agreement, made by Barack Obama, was a “dumb deal”, then reportedly hung up.
After braving the White House last week the UK prime minister, Theresa May, was castigated for her allegedly fawning behaviour towards the new US president. But the UK government believes, pragmatically, that Trump’s objectionable views and actions, such as his support for torture and his travel ban on seven mainly Muslim countries, must not be allowed to undermine the “special relationship”. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/02/donald-trump-appease-oppose-nations-governments-reacting