What does a Joe Biden win mean for the rest of the world?
He has vowed to restore American leadership after the confrontational and disruptive foreign policy of the Trump years, but the US faces challenges across the board ft.com/content/75592d… #bidenharris2020
He has vowed to restore American leadership after the confrontational and disruptive foreign policy of the Trump years, but the US faces challenges across the board ft.com/content/75592d… #bidenharris2020
Let’s start with Europe — what does Biden want to accomplish?
He is keen to rebuild the European alliances that Trump has repeatedly snubbed. Biden prides himself on his Irish heritage and will likely move away from Trump’s overt hostility to the EU ft.com/content/75592d…
He is keen to rebuild the European alliances that Trump has repeatedly snubbed. Biden prides himself on his Irish heritage and will likely move away from Trump’s overt hostility to the EU ft.com/content/75592d…
What about the Middle East?
Biden, like Trump, wants to end America’s forever wars and plans a shift in US loyalties in the Middle East. He’s promised to rejoin the Iran nuclear deal if the country comes back into compliance ft.com/content/75592d…
Biden, like Trump, wants to end America’s forever wars and plans a shift in US loyalties in the Middle East. He’s promised to rejoin the Iran nuclear deal if the country comes back into compliance ft.com/content/75592d…
Team Biden will inherit a US foreign policy establishment that views Beijing with far more concern than it did during the Obama era.
He will likely refuse to endorse a new Cold War with China, but seek to push back on conventions governing technology ft.com/content/75592d…
He will likely refuse to endorse a new Cold War with China, but seek to push back on conventions governing technology ft.com/content/75592d…
Although Biden has signalled he will continue to be tough on China on the trade front, he is unlikely to replicate the confrontational, and at times unpredictable, tariff regime fostered by Trump
It’s unclear whether he will remove or lower tariffs ft.com/content/75592d…
It’s unclear whether he will remove or lower tariffs ft.com/content/75592d…
Biden will also look to rejoin the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, from which Trump recently withdrew.
He wants net-zero emissions for the US by 2050 and to entirely rely on, and even export, clean energy ft.com/content/75592d…
He wants net-zero emissions for the US by 2050 and to entirely rely on, and even export, clean energy ft.com/content/75592d…
Ultimately, Biden promises to put an end to Trump’s isolationist, disruptive approach to global relations.
Will he be able to get it done in 4 years? Read our full story here: ft.com/content/75592d…
Will he be able to get it done in 4 years? Read our full story here: ft.com/content/75592d…
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