[ad_1]
(Reuters) – President Donald Trump won the 2016 election by vowing to put “America first,” nullify what he said were unfair trade deals, and force US allies to pay more for joint defense measures.
In a Nov. 3 election, he will face former Vice President Joe Biden, who vows to restore America’s global leadership and reverse many of Trump’s foreign policy actions.
Here is a look at their foreign policy differences:
CHINA
Trump imposed tariffs on Chinese products in hopes of regaining American jobs, but the trade war hurt American farmers and cost manufacturing jobs. Trump reached a partial “Phase 1” trade deal with China in January, but told Reuters on Wednesday that the deal had been “very bad” because of the economic consequences of the coronavirus pandemic.
Biden would remove tariffs on agricultural products, but would take a hard line on alleged steel dumping and China’s IP infringement.
Biden accused Trump of approaching Chinese leader Xi Jinping and of not giving a forceful response to the way in which China handled the new virus that emerged from the city of Wuhan and caused the largest number of cases and deaths in the world in the States. United.
Biden said he would send more US health officials to China to counter the spread of the virus, and called for an international investigation into the origins of the new coronavirus.
I ran
Trump questioned the benefits of US military interventions. USA In the Middle East, especially the invasion of Iraq in 2003, and withdrew from a nuclear agreement reached with Iran, European nations and Russia during the administration of President Barack Obama.
But Trump has sent more troops to the region after the withdrawal increased tensions with Iran.
Biden, who was Obama’s number two, said he would deal with Iran through diplomacy and re-sign the deal, but only if Iran re-complied with the agreement’s restrictions on its nuclear program.
After Iranian representatives and US forces clashed in Iraq, Trump ordered the January attack that killed the powerful Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani.
Biden said the strike “put the United States and Iran on a collision course” and proposes a narrower approach for the US military in the region against terrorism and working with local allies.
Biden wants to end US support for the Saudi Arabian war in Yemen, which Trump has defended.
NORTH KOREA
Trump met with North Korea’s supreme leader Kim Jong Un three times in 2018 and 2019, but efforts to get Kim to abandon the country’s nuclear weapons program have stalled.
Biden has accused Trump of giving away American influence over the North Korean regime for little in return and said he would not meet Kim without preconditions.
In recent weeks, Kim has disappeared from public view, sparking rumors about his health and raising concerns about instability.
ALLIANCES
Biden would join the Paris climate agreement and strengthen alliances such as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, movements that Biden says would undo the damage to the American leadership and the credibility inflicted by Trump.
The president angered NATO members and other US allies. And refused to criticize Russia’s leader Vladimir Putin, even when US intelligence officials. USA They concluded that the Russian army had interfered in the 2016 presidential election.
He has chosen himself as a tough negotiator and sought to paint Biden as soft on his American rivals. The Trump campaign criticized Biden for pledging to restore US relations with Cuba, claiming that Biden was “selling” to Cubans and Venezuelans to appease the left of the Democratic Party.
Biden plans to invest $ 4 billion in Central America to tackle poverty and corruption in the region that has sent migrants to the southern border of the United States.
(Report by Simon Lewis; Editing by Soyoung Kim and Jonathan Oatis)
[ad_2]
