World leaders may seek to leverage the new balance of power in Washington as Donald Trump enters the final two years of his presidency. (EPA Images pic)WASHINGTON: After his party suffered a midterms hammering, president Donald Trump faces a new challenge: proving he is still the boss of US foreign policy on the global stage.
With Trump politically hamstrung as he enters the remaining two-year 'lame duck' period of his White House tenure, world leaders may be quietly wondering how to leverage the new balance of power in Washington.
The 80-year-old Republican heads to the Asean summit in the Philippines and Apec summit in China from a radically transformed and hostile political landscape at home after the Democrats seized both the House of Representatives and Senate.
