US increasingly isolated denying trend of the times

When German Chancellor Angela Merkel said, "the question now is: do we fall apart into pieces of a puzzle and think everyone can solve the question best for himself alone?" she was denouncing the unilateralism the United States has been pursuing since 2016.

Speaking at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday, she called on the United States to put itself in other countries' shoes and to pursue win-win solutions together.

That the warm applause she received was absent after the address by US Vice-President Mike Pence speaks volumes about how unwelcome the unilateralist policies the US has adopted are.