Nuclear Subs in Europe, Ridicule in Beijing: Inside Donald Trump's Chaotic Week of Foreign Policy

Source: International Business Times

As Trump uses a nuclear-armed submarine in Gibraltar to pressure Iran, Chinese social media in Beijing pointedly mocks him as ‘Trump the Country Builder’. A US nuclear-armed submarine believed to be USS Alaska docked at the British naval base in Gibraltar on 10 May, placing the UK 'at risk' as Donald Trump uses the deployment to threaten Iran, according to a British security expert. Professor Anthony Glees, an intelligence and defence specialist at the University of Buckingham, argued the move was part of a deliberate attempt by Trump to intimidate Tehran with the presence of a ballistic missile submarine in range of Iranian targets.