Clinton, Trump and foreign policy: global conflicts await the next president

Trump’s anti-trade isolationism and Clinton’s Obama-esque policies diverge in how they would approach North Korea’s nuclear weapons or Isis in Syria and Iraq

There has arguably not been a US presidential election with so much at stake for the rest of the world since the second world war.

One candidate stands largely for continuity, signalling she would do slightly more than her predecessor to shore up the existing liberal world order.

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