Reuters
Under the heading above, Gennady Petrov wrote, in Nezavisimaya Gazeta, about what has been defined so far in the foreign policy features that the Biden administration will pursue regarding the Middle East, China and Russia.
The article reads: The US Senate approved, with extraordinary ease, Anthony Blinken’s appointment as Secretary of State.
The first statements and proposed decisions regarding cadre appointments from the new US dean of diplomacy make it possible to judge the actual foreign policy course of the Biden administration in the near future. Significant changes are expected in the US’s relations with Iran, which will be overseen in the State Department by the team that prepared the “nuclear deal” under Barack Obama.
But in Asia, it can be said that Blinken supported Trump’s approach, unconditionally, in three key points in his foreign policy. First, he described China as the main threat to the United States, and thus warmly refuted the assumptions that it would soon apply in relations with the People’s Republic of China during the Biden era; Secondly, Blinken clearly affirmed that the US embassy will remain in Jerusalem, which means that the new administration will not back down from recognizing this city as the capital of Israel. And third, the State Department intends to continue Trump’s efforts for recognition of the Jewish state by the Arab world.
The approval of Blinken’s appointment was not affected by Biden’s decision to extend the Russian-American Treaty on Measures to Reduce and Limit Strategic Offensive Arms (START), which expires on February 5.
With regard to Russia, and China as well, according to Blinken’s words, the United States will commit to standardized cooperation: interacting only in certain areas. In the case of Russia, arms control.
Otherwise, the Biden administration remains focused on gathering information and assessing the threats posed by Russia. All this is a far cry from the policy of wide-ranging reciprocal concessions and the establishment of personal contacts between the leaders of the two countries, with which George W. Bush and Barack Obama began their rule.
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