The United States appears increasingly isolated in global geopolitics and trade relationships as allies reassess their relationships with the world’s largest economy and consider going it alone.

In the new year, many countries and power blocs are resetting relations and establishing closer commercial ties and trading partnerships to exclude a more hostile and unstable United States, including China.preliminary agreement“With Canada and Reconciliation with Britainand the EU and India and south american countries.

The deals and negotiations come a year after U.S. President Donald Trump pursued an “America First” trade and foreign policy in his second term, with the White House hitting friends and foes alike with punitive trade tariffs. even territorial threatsas it asserts its economic and geopolitical dominance.

But this strategy could backfire, especially as America’s friends and partners seek to diversify trade policy, in large part to protect themselves from Trump’s unpredictability.

“Given what is happening in the United States and its foreign policy, this is set out in a recently released report national security strategy … this ‘middle power‘You need to find your own institutions and figure out different approaches,’ Damian Ma, China director at the Carnegie Center for East Asia Studies, told CNBC on Thursday.

“Countries will align based on specific, concrete single-point interests, rather than aligning based on comprehensive values,” he said. He noted that while this was not a return to the Cold War mentality of splitting opposing power blocs, it was more of a “realignment” of national interests.

“Where this recalibration and new balance will end, no one can say, but you will see countries finally start to take action. The UK and Canada will not be the only ones,” he said, predicting that “a large number of countries will recalibrate their attitudes towards superpowers such as China and the United States”.

China and Canada agreed in early January to reduce trade barriers, prompting angry response From Trump while UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is in Beijing reset relationship Meeting with President Xi Jinping, both sides agreed to lower trade and travel barriers.

The EU is also very busy; make progress It has a trade deal with Mercosur and last week signed a long-awaited free trade agreement with India.

The meetings followed Trump’s tirade against allies during a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Insulting and criticizing various leadersIncluding French President Emmanuel Macron and Carney.

Jimena Blanco, chief analyst at risk intelligence firm Verisk Maplecroft, told CNBC that the U.S.’s communication methods with its allies have significantly deteriorated.

“Our data measuring verbal tensions between countries shows a deterioration in U.S. relations with some of its key allies over the last year,” she told CNBC on Thursday.

“The increases were most pronounced in Canada, Denmark, Belgium, Japan, Ireland, New Zealand and France, reflecting the impact of open and tense exchanges between U.S. officials and allied officials.”

But Blanco noted that U.S. allies tend to respond to Washington’s policy shifts by diversifying their economies rather than reversing their integration in the global trading system.

Blanco added: “The EU, Canada, Japan, Australia and the UK cannot afford to disengage from the US and are instead expanding trade with large emerging markets and with each other.” Emerging markets are the “main winners” from this diversification.