Balance of Power

Countries Are Strategizing How to Please Trump

Governments are resorting to novel ways to win favor with the US president.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and US President Donald Trump in the White House on Aug. 18.

Photographer: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

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To win back Donald Trump’s favor, Switzerland is seeking a return to an old strength: peacemaking.