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The one area in which presidents have the most executive power is foreign policy. President Biden campaigned on his decades of foreign policy experience with promises to improve the U.S. standing among world leaders with slogans like a return to having “adults in the room.” But a year into his presidency, Biden is receiving low marks for his foreign policy record.
A recent Quinnipiac poll showed Biden has a 35% approval rating on foreign policy a year into his presidency, with 54% disapproving.
Among the first setbacks in March of last year was when the summit with the Chinese, led by Secretary of State Antony Blinken and national security adviser Jake Sullivan, to address trade, human rights, Hong Kong, cyber attacks, COVI, and rising military tensions in the South China Sea went off the rails.
“The Anchorage meeting with the Chinese, which was by far the worst bilateral meeting the US has had with any country around the world under the Biden administration, it was very badly mishandled,” Ian Bremmer of the Eurasia Group said in an interview with Fox News. “They were lecturing at the Chinese, the Chinese were lecturing at the Americans, and it felt like that relationship was sort of spiraling out of control. I think a lot has been done to try to stabilize the relationship since, but still, that was a real problem.”
President Biden listens during the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate, in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus, Friday, Sept. 17, 2021, in Washington.
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In the months to follow, China sent an unprecedented number of warplanes toward Taiwan to test the U.S. response, raising fears that an invasion of Taiwan appeared imminent.
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“I think President Biden’s actually had a pretty easy go as first years of a presidency on foreign policy are tested,” Kori Schake, director of Foreign and Defense…
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