Angela Merkel warns of global political disintegration at Munich Security Conference

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned of a disintegration of international political structures. Speaking in Munich, she called for greater cooperation and stressed the importance of NATO.

Merkel directed several specifics in her speech at the US, questioning the wisdom of a rapid US withdrawal from Syria and Afghanistan,
and the notion that German car exports represented ‘a threat to US national security’.
She stressed that carmaker BMW's largest plant is in the US, not in Bavaria.

"We need NATO as an anchor of stability on a stormy sea. We need it as a community of shared values. We should never forget that NATO was not founded only as a military alliance but as an alliance of nations that share values; that share the same values as regards human rights, as regards democracy; guidelines that we all share."

Merkel received standing ovations, with lots of applause during her speech -
with the notable exception of Ivanka Trump and US Vice President Mike Pence.

https://www.dw.com/en/angela-merkel-warns-of-global-political-disintegration-at-munich-security-conference/a-47546255

(Trump was unable to attend this meeting of national leaders because he was golfing in Florida)