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I'll repeat this re: Obama
I purposefully didn't mention Obama because I didn't want to see an argument follow.
Anyway, you clearly have a better sense of his FP than I do. What is it that you're referring to? I'm missing some key events/issues. What I've seen has been about economic isolationism, and withdrawal, or shift of, military burdens away from the US (Nato, East Asia) when it comes to alliances. Two other FP issues come to mind - his policy on Taiwan (mentioned) and his policy on Israel.
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Israel policy is moving beyond talk, relocating the embassy is the end of the two state solution.
Taiwan is just part of the China problem. Baiting a trade war, Tillerson talked about kicking the Chinese off disputed island during his confirmation hearing.
Talks of removing Russian sanctions (FUCK)
Withdrawing or limiting support to Nato/UN
Already working towards ending/limiting humanitarian aid in the developing world.
young_gun
The reality is that direct intervention, or as you prefer extrajudicial murder, is and always has been a part of of the toolkit used by powerful nations. For me the smaller the footprint the better, and the Obama doctrine of foreign policy embodied that. Especially since allot of it was cleaning up after Bush.
Economically its America First, rather that isolationism. But they have done more then make dumb phone calls already regarding FP.