Trump

When Donald J. Trump won a return to the White House, many countries thought they knew what to ___ and how to prepare for what was coming.

Bigger nations developed plans to soften or counter his threat of ___ tariffs.

For those eager to ___ substance from bluster, it looked like another performance of scattershot bravado

For Mr. Trump, China looms — ready, in his view, to take territory far from its own borders. He has falsely accused Beijing of ___ the American-built Panama Canal.

As countries became more powerful, they were expected to physically grow, and rivalries were redrawing maps and ___ conflicts from Asia to the Caribbean.

The United States ___ Europe’s colonial designs when it annexed Guam and Puerto Rico in 1898.

This is part of a pattern of the U.S. exerting control, or trying to, over areas of the globe perceived to be American interests, without having to summon up the ___ words ‘empire,’ ‘colonies’ or ‘imperialism,’

Mr. Trump’s threats of territorial takeover may be simply a transactional starting ___ or some kind of personal wish.

Panama and its neighbors tend to see Mr. Trump’s comments as a ___ of both the 1890s and the 1980s.

His news conference in Florida mixed vague threats (“It might be that you’ll have to do something”) with ___ promises (“I’m talking about protecting the free world”).