President Joe Biden is expected to set out his foreign policy vision, which aims to ‘restore America’s place in the world’, in a speech on Monday, according to a senior administrative official.
This would be Biden’s first major policy speech since his tenure and is likely to take place during a planned visit to the State Department to resign staff, the official said. The president is also expected to sign several executive actions related to his efforts to demonstrate a new American approach to the world stage, including the establishment of a task force to re-establish migrant families separated under the previous government. united.
Biden faces a number of foreign policy challenges – from Iran and North Korea to Russia, China and the war in Afghanistan, which began this fall 20 years ago.
He was sharply critical of former President Donald Trump’s foreign policy during the 2020 campaign and promised a dramatic shift if he were to win the election, including a pledge to increase outreach to US allies and to confront opponents such as Russia. .
In his first call since the inauguration of Russian President Vladimir Putin this week, Biden has raised several points of contention between the two countries, including Moscow’s election intervention and a five-year extension to the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty.
He has already rejoined the Paris climate agreement after Trump withdrew the US from the international treaty, and rejoined the World Health Organization after Trump began the process of withdrawing. Biden also said, in a reversal of his predecessor, that he intends to re-engage Iran diplomatically.
Biden also promised to continue to challenge China, an attitude that Trump has made a cornerstone of his “America First” foreign policy.
When announcing some key members of his national security team in November, he said: ‘America is back. Ready to lead the world and not retreat from it. Sit at the head of the table again. Ready to confront our adversaries, and not reject our allies, ready to stand up for our values. ”
White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters on Friday that Biden planned to visit the State Department on Monday to meet with Foreign Minister Tony Blinken. He told State Department employees this week that the desire of foreign allies he spoke to and that the United States wants to be more involved on the world stage is almost palpable.
