President-elect Trump faces world of danger

London

DONALD Trump is now the president-elect of America in the most sensational political upset since at least 1948 when Harry Truman scored an unexpected victory. With many US allies nervous about what Mr Trump's win will mean for US foreign policy, he now has both to begin a major campaign of re-assurance, and prepare for a host of major foreign policy challenges in a world full of potential danger.

Mr Trump will now start to receive enhanced intelligence briefings and his "in-tray" is vast. This will range from the Middle East where big offensives are underway against the so-called Islamic State in Mosul, Iraq, plus Raqqa, Syria; to the political tensions in South Korea where the president faces pressure to resign at the same time the nuclear standoff in the peninsula has intensified in recent months with North Korea; and in Europe where the migration crisis is adding to uncertainty in the continent over the future of the EU post-Brexit.