{"id":188854,"date":"2021-03-03T16:59:59","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T21:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=188854"},"modified":"2021-03-03T17:11:10","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T22:11:10","slug":"secretary-of-state-outlines-bidens-foreign-strategies-says-us-will-lead-with-diplomacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/secretary-of-state-outlines-bidens-foreign-strategies-says-us-will-lead-with-diplomacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Secretary of State Outlines Biden\u2019s Foreign Strategies, Says US Will \u2018Lead With Diplomacy\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsecretary-of-state-outlines-bidens-foreign-strategies-says-us-will-lead-with-diplomacy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=188854&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday outlined how President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-joe-biden\">Joe Biden<\/a>\u2019s administration will approach the foreign policy arena, including shifting the United States back into international agreements after the previous administration stressed strong nationalism.<\/p>\n<p>During a speech from the State Department, the Biden appointee said the Democrat-led government will \u201crenew America\u2019s strength to meet the challenges and seize the opportunities of our time\u201d by cooperating with other nations in combating the COVID-19 pandemic, especially on vaccinating people and hammering out deals like the one reached with Iran under the Obama administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmerican leadership and engagement matter. We\u2019re hearing this now from our friends. They\u2019re glad we\u2019re back. Whether we like it or not, the world does not organize itself. When the U.S. pulls back, one of two things is likely to happen. Either another country tries to take our place, but not in a way that advances our interest and values or maybe just as bad, no one steps up and then we get chaos and all the dangers that creates. Either way, that\u2019s not good for America,\u201d said Blinken, who served in the State Department during the Obama-Biden era.<\/p>\n<p>Biden has already announced that the United States is rejoining or moving to rejoin the pact with Iran, the Paris climate accords, and the United Nations\u2019 Human Rights Council, among other international agreements or entities. Former President Donald Trump withdrew from the pacts, arguing they weren\u2019t serving their stated purposes.<\/p>\n<p>While Biden\u2019s administration will \u201clead with diplomacy,\u201d the ability to effectively negotiate \u201cdepends in no small measure on the strength of our military,\u201d Blinken said, nearly a week after the United States launched airstrikes at Iranian-backed militant groups in Syria.<\/p>\n<p>The United States will make revitalizing ties with allies a major focus under Biden, his top foreign policy official said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3719652\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/biden-and-blinken-1200x800-1.jpg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden, accompanied by White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan, left, and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, second from left, attends a virtual meeting with Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington on March 1, 2021. (Andrew Harnik\/AP Photo)<\/p>\n<p>Blinken has acknowledged missteps by the administrations he\u2019s served. For instance, he told CBS last year that the Obama administration \u201cfailed to prevent a horrific loss of life\u201d in Syria. On Wednesday, he said\u00a0that some administration officials were mistaken in believing free trade agreements would broadly benefit Americans, pledging this time around to \u201cfight for every American job and for the rights, protections, and interests of all American workers,\u201d including using \u201cevery tool to stop countries from stealing our intellectual property or manipulating their currencies to get an unfair advantage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In another echo of Trump\u2019s foreign policy outlook, Blinken <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/blinken-highlights-china-challenge-as-biggest-geopolitical-test-of-the-21st-century_3719196.html\">described China<\/a> as \u201cthe biggest geopolitical test of the 21st century.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Blinken also said that strong borders \u201care fundamental to our national security,\u201d but argued there must be \u201ca just plain decent solution\u201d to the waves of migrants who reach America\u2019s borders each year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to address the root causes that drive so many people to flee their homes and so we\u2019ll work closely with other countries, especially our neighbors in Central America to help them deliver better physical security and economic opportunity, so people don\u2019t feel like migrating is the only way out and up,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The secretary of state also emphasized that the administration will \u201cdrive a green energy revolution\u201d in trying to \u201ctackle the climate crisis,\u201d blaming climate change for wildfires in California and flooding in the Midwest.<\/p>\n<p>James Carafano, vice president of the Heritage Foundation\u2019s Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy, told The Epoch Times that he couldn\u2019t \u201cdivine any real substantive action\u201d from the speech.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor example, he said secure borders are important. Okay, that\u2019s totally contrast with everything they\u2019re doing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy assessment is: These\u00a0guys came in without a plan. They don\u2019t have a plan for China. They don\u2019t have a plan for the Middle East. They don\u2019t have a plan for Russia, that they have an impulse to say well we\u2019ll do the opposite of Trump,\u201d he added. \u201cWhat we\u2019re seeing as a policy, that\u2019s the admixture of Biden\u2019s natural tendency to be very consensus building; Obama people just want to go back and what they\u2019re doing before, and some people have incredibly radical ideas like we\u2019d be better off with the Muslim Brotherhood [in] charge in the Middle East than Israel or the Arab countries. And what we\u2019re seeing is kind of a weird admixture of, we\u2019re not seeing a clear policy of how do you deal with [the] great power competition of the 21st century.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday outlined how President Joe Biden\u2019s administration will approach the foreign policy arena, including shifting the United States back into international agreements after the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2274707,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/biden-and-blinken-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Secretary of State Outlines Biden\u2019s Foreign Strategies, Says US Will \u2018Lead With Diplomacy\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/biden-and-blinken-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Secretary of State Outlines Biden\u2019s Foreign Strategies, Says US Will \u2018Lead With Diplomacy\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2274707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}