{"id":583415,"date":"2021-07-05T20:05:16","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T00:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=583415"},"modified":"2021-07-05T20:05:18","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T00:05:18","slug":"report-biden-admin-to-ease-trump-sanctions-regime-on-key-american-adversaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-biden-admin-to-ease-trump-sanctions-regime-on-key-american-adversaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Biden Admin To Ease Trump Sanctions Regime On Key American Adversaries"},"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\">24<\/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%2Freport-biden-admin-to-ease-trump-sanctions-regime-on-key-american-adversaries%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=583415&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-Iran-Ebrahim-Raisi-Nuclear-Deal-scaled-e1624281236293.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>President Joe Biden is reportedly set to chart a new course away from his predecessor\u2019s foreign policy.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration is re-evaluating how the U.S. uses economic sanctions and is in the midst of planning a new approach that will do away with widespread economic pressure campaigns, unilateral sanctions and excessive collateral damage, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/biden-to-temper-u-s-use-of-sanctions-weapons-officials-say-11625500717?mod=hp_lead_pos6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">report from The Wall Street Journal<\/a> (WSJ). The changes are expected to come once the administration is finished with a review of sanctions policy sometime near the end of summer, according to the WSJ.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"12.478260869565\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Dems used to talk a lot about \u201csoft power\u201d in foreign policy.<\/p>\n<p>After giving a multi-billion-dollar pipe line to Putin &amp; offering the Ayatollah billions more, it seems Joe Biden has replaced that foreign policy w\/ \u201csoft weakness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Appeasement never works. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/G2F1Gykwoz\">https:\/\/t.co\/G2F1Gykwoz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tedcruz\/status\/1412141770310225926?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Former Trump administration officials reportedly said the Biden team is wasting years of leverage built up by increasing sanctions on places like Venezuela, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/22\/kim-yo-jong-dismissed-jake-sullivan-north-korea-talks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">North Korea<\/a> and Iran. Those officials said relying on international partners and waiting to reach multilateral agreements can undermine U.S. national security, according to the WSJ.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur focus is on making sure that we\u2019re moving from unilateral action, which has been what has defined U.S. policy over the last four years, to really working with our partners,\u201d a senior Biden administration official reportedly told the WSJ.<\/p>\n<p>One case where the new approach is already in motion is Iran, which the Biden administration has offered sanctions relief to in exchange for talks on a return to the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/02\/joe-biden-iran-nuclear-deal-jcpoa-vienna-austria-negotiation-european-union\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Iran nuclear deal<\/a> along with its European partners. The Trump administration <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2018\/05\/08\/donald-trump-pulls-us-out-of-iran-nuclear-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">abandoned the nuclear deal<\/a> in 2017, and consistently ramped up economic penalties on the regime in subsequent years.<\/p>\n<p>The administration has also sought international cooperation on sanctions against <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/01\/china-xi-bloodshed-taiwan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">China<\/a> for the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s actions in <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/05\/google-facebook-twitter-hong-kong-doxxing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hong Kong<\/a> and Xinjiang, Russia for its attacks on political liberties and Belarus for crackdowns on civil freedoms. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/29\/china-wuhan-brett-giroir-covid-19-coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: \u2018Lack Of Chinese Transparency\u2019 Was Ultimate \u2018Source Of Death\u2019 In Pandemic, Expert Tells House Republicans)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Biden departed from Trump policy by opting not to sanction constructors of the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/15\/joe-biden-tony-blinken-russia-germany-nord-stream-2-pipeline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nord Stream 2 pipeline<\/a>, a major boon for both Russia and a key European ally in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s team also loosened restrictions on Venezuela\u2019s port authority in February and issued waivers for pandemic relief last month for <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/12\/07\/socialists-power-south-american-election-nicolas-maduro-venezuela\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Venezuela<\/a>, Syria and Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Treasury Secretary Adewale Adeyemo is leading the administration\u2019s policy review. His office said he \u201cseeks to identify ways to promote a warranted, strategic, and judicious use of sanctions\u201d as he meets with key stakeholders, according to the WSJ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden is reportedly set to chart a new course away from his predecessor\u2019s foreign policy.The Biden administration is re-evaluating how the U.S. uses economic sanctions and is in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2314045,"comment_status":"close","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\/06\/GettyImages-Iran-Ebrahim-Raisi-Nuclear-Deal-scaled-e1624281236293.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Report: Biden Admin To Ease Trump Sanctions Regime On Key American Adversaries","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-583415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-Iran-Ebrahim-Raisi-Nuclear-Deal-scaled-e1624281236293.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Report: Biden Admin To Ease Trump Sanctions Regime On Key American Adversaries","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583415","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=583415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2314045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}