Separating Facts from FAKES
Separating Facts from FAKES
Joe Biden has had more foreign policy experience than any other president in U.S. history.
President Biden and President Yoon Suk Yeol of South Korea have met several times in recent months.
President Biden sees China as a top strategic challenge, according to interviews with more than a dozen of his advisers and foreign policy associates.
Joe Biden has had more foreign policy experience than any other president in U.S. history. Biden took office after more than 30 years on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and eight more spearheading diplomatic assignments for President Barack Obama. While in Congress he served as the chairman or ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for twelve years.
The administration's goal is to restore the United States to a "position of trusted leadership" among global democracies in order to address challenges posed by Russia and China.
President Joe Biden took office with an agenda summed up by his favorite campaign tagline: “America is back.” Above all, that meant repairing the damage done to America’s global standing by his predecessor, former President Donald Trump. During his four years in office, Trump strained ties with America’s allies in Europe and Asia, raised tensions with adversaries like Iran and Venezuela, and engaged in a trade war with China that left bilateral relations in their worst state in decades.
Amid these challenges, President Biden still sought to push forward an ambitious climate agenda and rejuvenate the global economy from its pandemic doldrums, all while meeting his early promise of rebuilding democracy at home and delivering for the American people.
“He has very strong instincts,” according to Biden’s Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, who has worked with Biden for more than 20 years. “But they are deeply informed by experience, deeply informed by constant conversations, engagements, discussions and debates with his senior team and with others.”
In only his first two years in office, U.S. President Joe Biden has presided over the most transformative phase in U.S. foreign policy in decades. His administration has led a massive effort to push back against Russia after it unleashed the most horrific war of aggression in Europe since 1945, built and expanded new alliances to contain China in the Indo-Pacific, and rejoined global efforts on climate policy and other issues. Biden and his team have brought a renewed seriousness to U.S. foreign-policy making that stands in sharp contrast with the chaos of the Trump era.
At the same time, President Biden has strengthened the transatlantic alliance between the U.S. and Europe. Restoring the unity between the NATO countries and collective security. Additionally, Biden has reinstated the U.S. as a member of the Paris Climate Agreement and has implemented other measures to address climate change.
President Joe Biden has also worked tirelessly to support Ukraine in a war he’d hoped to avoid. He has fully embraced the mantle of wartime leader, boasting of a U.S.-led Western response that blunted Vladimir Putin’s invasion and slowed the march of global authoritarianism. He may not be commanding troops in this battle, but he is acting like democracy’s civilian general, commanding an alliance strung together by geography, fear and necessity.
In Biden’s own words: “When Russia invaded, it wasn’t just Ukraine being tested. The whole world faced a test for the ages. Europe was being tested. America was being tested. NATO was being tested. All democracies were being tested. And the questions we face are as simple as they are profound: Would we respond, or would we look the other way? One year later, we know the answer: We did respond. We would be strong, we would be united, and the world would not look the other way.”
And on a recent six-day trip to South Korea and Japan Biden has also renewed our relationships, building rapport with the two nations’ leaders while also sending an unmistakable message to China: Russia’s faltering invasion of Ukraine should give Beijing pause about its own saber-rattling in the Pacific.
Summary: In only his first two years in office, U.S. President Joe Biden has presided over the most transformative phase in U.S. foreign policy in decades. His administration has led a massive effort to push back against Russia after it unleashed the most horrific war of aggression in Europe since 1945, built and expanded new alliances to contain China in the Indo-Pacific, and rejoined global efforts on climate policy and other issues. Biden and his team have brought a renewed seriousness to U.S. foreign-policy making that stands in sharp contrast with the chaos of the Trump era.
NO OTHER 2024 CANDIDATE IS READY TO TAKE OVER OUR INTERNATIONAL POLICY.
Look through a series of articles and papers that support the opinions on this page.
Report Card: https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/01/19/biden-2-year-report-card-foreign-policy/
In a Crisis: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/04/03/biden-foreign-policy-instinct/
Ukraine and NATO: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/02/21/biden-ukraine-russia-nato-democracy-00083812
Summary: https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/01/19/biden-2-year-report-card-foreign-policy/