U.S. Secretary of State Rubio said at a press conference today with Hungarian Prime Minister Orbán: "During President Trump's term, we expect every country in the world to act in accordance with its own national interests. We also define ourselves in this way for the United States. When our national interests align with those of another country, there is space to establish an extraordinary partnership."
Comment: From the perspective of realist international relations theory, Rubio's remarks are a programmatic statement of Trump's transactional diplomacy in his second term: it centers on national interests and power struggles, downplaying the ideological and value-oriented facade, advocating that all countries rationally pursue their own interests, including the United States; cooperation and partnerships between countries are no longer based on ideological consensus, but only depend on whether interests align. Essentially, it reduces diplomacy to a pragmatic exchange of power and interests, returning to the core logic of realism — defining behavior by interests and determining relationships by strength.
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