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Mr Trump says the speech will not be the unveiling of a
"Trump doctrine"
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Mr Trump, the frontrunner for the
Republican candidacy in the 2016 presidential race, will focus on trade and
security, his campaign said.
He has
previously said the US
On Tuesday,
Mr Trump called himself the Republican "presumptive nominee" after
wins in Connecticut , Delaware ,
Rhode Island , Maryland
and Pennsylvania
What has Trump said so far on
foreign policy?
While he
has used his campaign to outline some of his foreign policy goals, this is the
first time he has detailed them in a speech. He will use a teleprompter, having
previously said no candidate for the presidency should do so.
He said the
speech would not be a "Trump doctrine", and that he would retain some
flexibility to make changes if elected.
Here are
some of the main points he has made so far:
On Islamic State
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Mr Trump supports stronger interrogation of IS suspects
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He says that no
other candidate would be tougher on the so-called Islamic State (IS) and he
would weaken the militants by cutting off their access to
oil.
He has also
said he supports waterboarding and other strong interrogation methods against
IS. And while he says he would stay within the law, he would like laws on
interrogation techniques expanded.
On nuclear weapons
The nuclear threat, and the risk of
proliferation, is "the biggest problem the world has", Mr Trump told the New York Times last
month. Using a nuclear weapon first would be "an absolute
last step", he said.
On US allies
Mr Trump
has decried what he calls the United
States Washington
Speaking to
the New York Times about the US-Japan relationship, he said: "If we're
attacked, they do not have to come to our defence, if they're attacked, we have
to come totally to their defence. And that is a, that's a real problem."
On trade
On China ,
for example, he says it should be taken to task on a number of issues in order to make trade with the US China
Who are his advisers?
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Jeff Sessions is a former federal prosecutor
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Mr Trump once said he was his own
best foreign policy adviser, but, in recent months, has expanded his back-room
team. Some of his appointments had proved controversial.
The team is
led by Republican Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama
Another
member, retired Gen Joseph Schmitz, resigned from the military in 2005 amid
accusations of misconduct. However, Mr Schmitz was never charged with
wrongdoing.
Another
adviser, Walid Phares, was criticised when he was named as part of Mitt
Romney's foreign policy team in 2011.
Muslim
advocacy groups took issue with Mr Phares's close ties to right-wing Christian
militia groups during the Lebanese civil war.
What have others said?
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"It's a perfect storm of
isolationism, muscular nationalism, with a dash of pragmatism and realism"
- Aaron David Miller, former adviser to Republican and Democratic
administrations between 1978 and 2003
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"He needs to show that he
has the substance, the depth of knowledge and the vision to be the American
commander-in-chief" - Steve Schmidt, former campaign manager to 2008
Republican candidate John McCain, to Reuters
What happened on Tuesday?
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Donald Trump pledged to "beat the system"
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After his sweep of the five mid-Atlantic states, Mr Trump said of the battle for the Republican nomination: "It's over. As far as I'm concerned, it's over."
He told supporters in New York he would not moderate his policies if elected president.
For the Democrats, Hillary Clinton was denied a clean sweep by Bernie Sanders, after he won in Rhode Island.
After their victories, Mr Trump and Mrs Clinton turned their fire on each other.
Mr Trump said his Democratic rival's only advantage in the presidential race was being a woman.
"Frankly, if Hillary Clinton were a man, I don't think she'd get 5% of the vote," he said.
Mrs Clinton hit back at his accusation that she was playing the "woman card".
"Well, if fighting for women's healthcare and paid family leave and equal pay is playing the woman card, then deal me in," she told cheering supporters in Philadelphia.
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