American foreign policy is adrift – unfocused, even misfocused. The Biden Administration must quickly find focus, concentrate on what matters, understand the world as it is, not as they wish it to be. A few twists of the dial would put things right.
Even the most whimsical stargazers know, to see stars, planets, or moon clearly, you must learn focus, and then keep it – or lose the object. Funny enough, the telescope analogy works for foreign policy, too.
First, you need to want to see things as they are, then scan the sky at low magnification – which is, by definition, widest range. Catching the big object, you put it in cross hairs, improve resolution, resolve not to lose it. Centered on the big thing, other objects become more visible, aligned, clear.
So, what is the big object? China. What are they doing? Since Biden has taken office, they have twice deployed bombers and fighters around Taiwan, authorized Chinese Coast Guard vessels to fire on foreign vessels, declared an independent Taiwan would “mean war,” doubled down on take-over of Hong Kong, refused international calls to end mass genocide, usurped Catholic Church authority, and initiated a major cyberattack. See, e.g., https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2021/01/26/those-bombers-china-sent-toward-taiwan-they-were-a-dress-rehearsal-for-war/; https://www.theepochtimes.com/a-modern-day-holocaust-chinas-genocide-of-uyghurs-and-falun-gong-adherents_3693281.html; https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-coastguard-law-idUSKBN29R1ER; https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/03/04/editorials/china-senkakus-disputed-islands-china-japan-relations-japan-coast-guard-pla-china-coast-guard-2/; https://dailycaller.com/2021/02/16/china-communist-government-catholic-clergy-pope-francis/; https://krdo.com/politics/2021/03/06/white-house-warns-of-active-threat-from-microsoft-email-hackers/.
Within the past month, they have refused World Health Organization (WHO) access to Wuhan’s Virology Institute – locus of bat coronavirus research. COVID-19, comes from SARS-C0V-2, “genetically similar to coronaviruses collected from a type of bat.” See, e.g., https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-19-virus-studies-yield-new-clues-on-pandemics-origin-11614594600; https://www.voanews.com/covid-19-pandemic/who-release-mid-march-report-china-covid-19-inspection.
China has redoubled focus on winning a “space war” – which would have instant earth-bound impact, while also pressing “information warfare” to the limit with big money, attempts to cultivate US assets (including government figures), intimidation of American universities, and relentless public and private espionage. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/24/us/politics/space-war-takeaways-us-china.html; https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasreimann/2020/12/19/heres-what-we-know-about-rep-swalwells-connection-to-a-suspected-chinese-spy/.
More existential, China is developing weapons to rival – or beat – US technology. Beyond militarizing space, international waters, and cyberspace, they push new “carrier killing” DF-21 ballistic missiles, hypersonic weapons, and tactical innovations. See, e.g., https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/541184-a-biden-stumble;
Not to see China as “the big object” in our viewfinder – is not to be looking. Yet this is what is happening. Biden has failed to call China out, no major consequences for provocative actions. Worse, he has empowered China, dangerously reinforcing the “blur.”
In a stunning act of appeasement, Biden excused ethnic genocide as a “different norm,” despite mass imprisonment, physical and psychological torture, systematic abuse and sterilization of minority women. See, e.g., https://nypost.com/2021/02/17/biden-says-uighur-genocide-is-part-of-chinas-different-norms/; https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/china-conducting-mass-sterilization-muslim-minorities-amount-genocide/story?id=71519132.
Equally stunning, Biden lifted Trump transparency requirements on Chinese-funded penetration of US educational institutions, K-12, college campuses, and graduate research. Communist-funded Confucius Institutes openly press pro-Communist propaganda in 500 US K-12 schools, 65 colleges and universities. Where Trump sought to unearth and flush this Chinese infiltration, Biden has done the reverse. https://nlpc.org/2021/02/17/biden-moves-to-protect-pro-china-confucius-institutes-on-campus/; https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-slams-biden-reversal-of-trump-era-rule-targeting-chinese-propaganda-on-campuses/ar-BB1dz4dP.
On the military defense, deterrence, space, cyber, and economic warfare venues, Biden has been no less weak. His message seems to be “Assume the best and prepare for … the best.” The absurdity of that position, with no renewed emphasis on China’s aims, is not lost on China.
Biden’s Secretary of State, incorrigibly idealistic, offered eight foreign policy priorities last week. Of the eight, China ranks dead last, after “COVID-19, revising the economy … renewing democracy, reforming immigration, rebuilding alliances, tackling climate change” and “leadership in technology.”
Such ambling, open-ended, unaccountable “happy words” are like pointing our telescope at the ground. They fill the viewfinder, missing the real object. The seminal object of US foreign policy should not be COVID, domestic politics, climate, or Myanmar. It must be China.
By contrast, China’s Communist Party – led by President Xi Jinping – has focused tightly on the US in the Communist Party’s Annual Summit this week. His focus is not friendly. It is bellicose, provocative, and unapologetically aims – read the transcripts – for world domination.
Focusing China’s economic, military, cultural, espionage, space, maritime, cyber, and multilateral-penetration tools on the US, they aim to bear down. After allowing COVID-19 to ravage the world, President Xi pushes that “the East is rising and the West is declining,” arguing – rather disingenuously –an “ascendant China is riding out global challenges that have sowed chaos elsewhere.” See, e.g., https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-plays-up-ascendancy-over-west-as-it-sets-economic-path-11614854159.
Main point? China is the “big thing.” Our foreign policy must center here. Once it does, which may be forced on us, other objects get clear. China is complicit with Russia and Iran – planning against the US. See, e.g., https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2021/02/iran-russia-china-naval-drill.html.
China has helped Iran and North Korea skirt US sanctions, pushed Iran’s position. In return, Iran refuses to condemn China’s repression of Muslims, which one might think would inflame the Iranian people, except it mirrors Iran’s repression. Inside Iran, human rights abuses are accelerating. See, e.g. https://asiatimes.com/2021/02/why-iran-wont-cross-china-on-the-uighurs/; https://www.ncr-iran.org/en/news/human-rights/ongoing-human-rights-violations-in-iran-implores-international-community-to-act/.
Once threats posed by China, Iran and Russia are clear, other objects become clear. How the US should gather European, Far Eastern, South American, and African allies to confront China, blunt Russian geographic and Iranian nuclear ambitions, becomes obvious. Confronting Chinese hubris in multilateral groups, the UN, WHO, World Trade Organization, international judicial tribunals, becomes plain. A unified rollback, not permissive roll-forward, of Communist China’s influence takes hold.
Bottom line: Foreign policy matters. It affects US security, credibility, economy, and ability to preserve a stable, less intimidated, community of self-determining nations. If half-truths and lies prevail; if belligerent, immoral governments are unchecked, Western values erode. That is what China wants.
Biden must see the world as it is, tighten his focus on China. If we do not twist the dial and get this right, others will fall into China’s orbit. Worse, Americans will pay a price for decades. Focus matters – in foreign policy, as in mapping the heavens. For heaven’s sake, focus.
Your assumptions are that the POTUS or his handlers have some semblance of competence or knowledge about all the various issues surrounding foreign policy and that what they are currently doing is wrong. Sorry, but they don’t.
This is the same gang that did the Iran nuclear deal on Iran’s terms, ignored the creation and spread of ISIS, placated North Korea, ignored China establishing forward military bases on artificial islands in international waters, hung a huge welcome sign over our southern border inviting every South American country to send us their unwanted for us to take care of and presided over a whole host of other major foreign policy blunders during the Obama years. Virtually all the major players from those 8 years of “leading from behind” are back in power and running things again. So is it really any surprise that they have quickly made a huge mess of United States foreign policy yet again?
Their chief goal has been to completely undo virtually all the foreign policy gains made under President Trump and return the United States to the declining superpower it was under Obama. What they call “returning to normal”. So far, they are accomplishing that task rather well. Many of our allies in the far east and southern pacific have now taken to forming new self defense pacts with each other given this disastrous shift back to the failed foreign policies of the Obama administration. Some of our European allies have come right out and said our foreign policies don’t align with their interests, while they continue to cozy up to both Russia and China. All while expecting us to defend them from both should the need ever arise.
So yes, I agree with you that the Biden administration has made a quick mess of our foreign policy and already done great damage to the United States on multiple fronts. All in less than 50 days in office. The Democrats are just warming up. It will likely get much worse. This however was all very predictable as most, if not all, of these goals were clearly laid out in the 110 page 2020 Democrat policy platform Biden and every other Democrat ran on last year.
All too true, but Biden the dems and big tech were bought and paid for by China long ago, so only lip service wiil be the order of the day. Kamala will be no better. These idiots see enemies here instead of abroad.
Biden’s Foreign Policy isn’t adrift, it’s Jackass Joe himself who is adrift!!! … And what’s so ashamebly is that our Mainstream Media isn’t calling him out for it. His behavior is Treasonous, yet nothing will happen to him other than going down in history as America’s worst President ever! It’s a good thing that He is going to be a 1 term President unless the Progressively Communist Democrats can steal the Presidency again in 2024. And you know they will try their best to do so! America cannot allow this to happen again!
Apparently the real Biden is coming out and he is either communist or very sympathizing. He thinks it’s ok to oppress and kill those who don’t agree with him? He is more than senile. If these clowns don’t get real there will be big trouble. Idealistic has no place in the world as it is now. Straight forward and hard line is the only way to go. Xi Jinping is a tyrant and a psychopath. You can’t reason with the unreasonable evil. Biden is not up to the task. Recall and remove them all. We need a strong, hardline and courageous leader not a sniveling coward.
Why in the world would anyone expect otherwise from the Biden administration? Biden’s family fortunes are completely dependent upon alignment with the Chinese govt. and many of them, including “the big guy” (Joe), are blackmailable from numerous directions. Aside from Biden himself, his entire administration is populated with people who are ideologically AND monetarily invested in China. They openly express admiration for Mao, his tactics and his ‘utopia’. All of this was publicly known before the election but the Media and Big Tech managed to keep the disinterested, mind-numbed general population from hearing anything about it. They never heard it from the MSM and no more than a few even care now.
I live in Yuma AZ, very close to the border, this Biden has no idea what is going on. I will be moving as soon as I can, even portland looks better to me now.
All that is assuming, of course, that the Biden administration doesn’t want the US to become another communist country. I’m not sure that is the case.
This entire article doesn’t address the fact the Biden isn’t the one handling foreign policy but Kamala is. No mention of the $17 million China gave the Biden family and therefore, Biden is not going to go against anything China does. No mention of China stealing US technology. I could go on and on but as US media ignores the truth of what is actually happening, this only put the US in more jeopardy in dealing with China and the rest of the world.
Biden is not running the country. He’s president in name only. Pelosi, Harris an Schumer are telling him what to do.
Be aware folks, they are laying the groundwork for the implementation of Communism further into the US.
Do we really need further proof that Communism through the leadership of the DNC has infiltrated the US government and they now are working very hard to take us down. Think about the big money ($17 million we are aware of) laundered to the Biden’s from Communist China. Not to mention the corrupt Clintons and Obama leadership and their Communist background.
Communists in action is what Antifa and the other Dem protesters are. Kamela has Communism in her background. Removing our historical statues is part of the Communist plan of removing a country’s history The leadership of the Democrat Party is Communist—Nancy Pelosi’s mentor was Vivian Halinan whose far left lawyer husband defended communists and hosted parties for the CPUSA.
America better wake up you’re under assault from within by people who are funded by foreign sources.
I refer to it as the Communist DNC as most of the leadership are Communists. I don’t say this lightly. Why I believe this is can be found in the book “You Can Still Trust the Communists (to be Communists).pdf The book can be found for free online by searching the title. The first 20 pages or so are slow reading but after that, I couldn’t put the book down. An update version of this book by David Noebel can be found online.
This book reminded me about Bill Clinton’s desire to visit Russia and Russia allowed him in.
This book states the USSR only allowed those to visit that they believed they could use and then remember, they gave permission for Bill Clinton to visit when he was a Rhodes scholar. Bernie Sanders was able to visit. People should ask, why were these two men were so infatuated with Russia.
Obama also has Communism in his upbringing. Remember Obama and Michelle hung Mao Christmas ornaments on the White House tree and no one made a big deal out it.
These Dems are working to destroy our country by creating chaos (Antifa) as well as attempting to remove history (statues, renaming schools as Feinstein did, even removing her own name off of one) & they have already taken over education. The outline for what is happening now is in the book I noted above. My grandparents fled Communism a hundred years ago and now it is here. After the US is taken over, there is no where else to go.
Do you all even see what’s playing out here right before our eyes? Total destruction, then the “Great Reset” the evil globalists are forcing up our collective azzes. So either fight, or sit back and passively watch your America being flushed down the toilet. Outrage is too mild to describe this.
Unfocused policy? This government has No policy. Its a ship with no rudder.
biden is clearly not running the show. He’s completely mentally unable to fulfill the task. They can’t let him speak at any length and recently cut his feed when he asked if there were any questions. He can’t even remember what the Pentagon is called. 25A is only a matter of time.
The show is being run by the left, including the ccp.
Particular policies may lack focus, but that IS actually part of their their laser sharp focus…the complete destruction of America as a bastion of freedom. They want a world government with no single standout nation state. No American exceptionalism and no patriotic pride from its citizens. Eliminating those, very substantially eliminates resistance to their truly evil one world government plans. The blue helmet brigade goose-stepping down the streets won’t be the stuff of the tin foil hat crowd. It will be all too real.
Aren’t we pleased that Feinstein, McConnell and the Bidens and Clintons are in the Communist Chinese Cartel as well as other unnamed infidels? Well done subterfuge.
Rest easy one and all, harris, and crew are well in charge. Statements made elsewhere in the comments are correct. We were told this from the start. The 25th amendment will end the slight of hand. Then grab on with both hands, the slide to what they want will be fast and wild. God please help our Nation and its people! For I see no way out other than the hand of God.
President Biden is not in control of his administration. He is not the Mr. Mr. Biden from a few years back. It is almost as if he is a puppet on strings. If this was a monarchy form of government, we would say he is the king on the throne but there is someone “behind the throne” that actually has the power and the king does whatever they want. They may even make him feel he is actually in control and making the decisions but he is under their control.
The agenda of the far left is being pushed unto the Democratic party and for a reason I don’t understand unless driven by fear the members of the Democratic party is like a group of cattle following their leader without thinking for themselves or as said earlier are too afraid of those who are really in power. I don’t think anyone is afraid of President Biden.
I’m not hearing anything from Republicans but complaining on Social Media. If the Democrats can push through impeachments, why can’t the Republicans, the Dems started it. Republicans need to start creating bills and pass legislation that will stop the kinds of things the Commie Marxist Party is doing. WHERE ARE THE REPUBLICANS IN OUR MESSED UP GOVERNMENT????
Everything, with Biden, is dangerously unfocused, that’s why I did not call him President Biden. Never have and I never will, unless he changes, but, he never will. It’s hate American first and for most with the Demonrats .
China has the O’Biden administration in its back pocket. They have controlled the narrative, and they will until he is out of office. Sleepy Joe has given them a pass, and the Chinese will play that for all they can get from the United States. The foreign policy gaffes and the lack of attention will give the Chinese government an upper hand on what our government does to protect our interests. One might liken this to a 100 yard dash: The Chinese are 10 yards from the finish line and the United States has just left the blocks. We will all long for the days when the Trump Administration called out the Chinese for worldwide heavy handed economic, political, and military dealings.
God Is NOT Finished yet. Wait for the “fireworks”. They are coming.
chinajoe like ALL carreer politicians are in it for themselves, this is what the SWAMP is all about, they “buy” OUR representatives with sex, drugs, bags of money, and feed thier greed, they only care about what they can get out of the system, not what they can put into it, chinajoe and his “bagman” hunter have deals with foriegn energy co. that will make them filthy rich as they destroy AMERICAN ENERGY INDEPENDENCE and drive AMERICA into third world status, the worst part of all this is the anger when the socialists mindless drones are confronted with the truth, THEY ARE SO BRAINWASHED THEY CANNOT DEAL WITH THE TRUTH, THEY JUST SHOUT YOU DOWN AND REFUSE TO LISTEN, DOES THAT SOUND LIKE NORMAL BEHAVIOUR? the only way to save our nation is to prove voter fraud and put the people in office that actually WON !!
I think that we should declare our presidential election a mistrial and have a new election now.
President’s Day has officially been CANCELLED until we get one that has been elected by American taxpayers !!!!
Wow- another great perspective Mr. Charles.
Biden and this group don’t have a clue,a repeat if democrat and obamas failed foreign policy attempts.
Maybe their planning a nighttime delivery of cash to some other rogue anti American regime.
Scarry time for America!
Zero focus day 1, or his handlers NOT trained in affairs
Or all for “show” & No Go.
Same ahead for 3 years now
Or US in Econ ruin?
Depression 2 by stimulus bills
& bowing to China
Biden has a foreign policy? That’s news to me, seems like his foreign policy has
been like a cow taking a dump. It’s splattered all over the pasture.
Biden cannot hold a solo news conference because he’d never make past the first two questions! He always has Kamalback hovering right near him–guess they think he’ll drop dead and she can immediately jump in and finish his last sentence! PATHETIC!!!
The clock is running out for the United States of America! Our freedoms of Life- Liberty – and The Pursuit oh Happiness is being stripped away, not slowly but at warp speed. Somehow we have to get the attention of the woke people to see what truly is instore for them if Communism replaces Capitalism. The most dangerous enemy of our Republic is the lack of transparent journalism in the Main Stream Media!
And take notice folks! China has been buying up all the farmland in the US that they can get their hands on! They want to take over our country! We can not allow that. Farmers of America do NOT sell your land to these Communists!
I will not define Biden’s foreign policy as “unfocused”. I think it is very intentional. All of it, no matter how bad it is. Biden and the entire Democratic Party have become globalists who refuse to consider putting America First, even though that is what every federal politicians is elected to do. As such the morons who voted for him have voted for a train wreck from which we may never recover.
Very informative and shocking article..Thank you
God Bless America…
I have mentioned it before and will again. Just hate reading about the destructive decisions this guy is making. I can assure you if the elections were today, he would lose handedly. There are many disgruntle Democrats. He coned them.
Great article. Why would China Joe be harsh on China when he and his family took money from China. He sold out America long ago.
When I read articles like this I just have to shake my head. You really are clueless if you think the dems are just engaged in misguided policy. The election was rigged and even SCOTUS refused to look at the evidence because they are also compromised. Those that are not being blackmailed or their family threatened, are communists. All of these people are in it for themselves and are traitors to their own country. They have sold us out to the highest bidder. That just happens to be China. China is blackmailing many people in the democrat party, especially Biden. The videos on the web of Hunter screwing Chinese prostitutes and abusing children are being used to extract concessions out of Biden and the democrat party. These people are globalists and WANT to see America brought down. They see themselves as global citizens and that is where their allegiance is. They care nothing about the American people, but only about how they can enrich themselves and attain more power. There are those in the Republican party that are also dirty. McConnell is married to a Chinese agent who has made him very rich with connections to her family’s shipping company. McConnell is getting ready to retire because he knows the end of the game is upon us. Barring a miracle, when HR-1 becomes the law of the land, that is the end of the USA as we knew it. The game will be completely rigged from that point on and the only conservatives that will be elected will be tokens to keep the sham of a fair election going. Most Republicans elected will be RINOs. Several states are talking succession and this time they just may go through with it. The idea of a midterm election where we take back the House and the Senate is a joke. There is no best case scenario. The USA is toast!
Seriously, is anyone surprised? I know I’m not, I’m surprised Sleepy Joe hasn’t climbed into bed with China, oh wait, he already was! Will no one do anything about this farce for a president? It’s outrageous nothing is being done!
One must realize that we need a world economy for the good of all.
Scary article, now I hope the common sense approach since WWII takes over, as we need to compromise to make all nations healthy if we are to survive as Planet Earth. I truly believe the Lord will decide what is best.
Will someone PLEASE prove Joe Biden has dementia and has had it since before the election. Then the election would have to be declared null and void because he ran for office under false pretenses.
Wrong. It’s laser-focused on enslaving all citizens of the USA and the world.
FOCUS ON CHINA?? IF IT HAPPENS, HUNTER WILL BE OUT OF A JOB. HOWEVER I AM SURE THERE IS SOMETHING IN THAT $1.9 TRILLION BILL UNDER UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF THAT HUNTER COULD BE ELIGIBLE FOR.
Everything this ass matter does, drives another nail in the lid of the coffin of the USA!
Has he ever gotten anything right when it comes to foreign policy? No.
I’m sure some on here remember operation Mockingbird, Reuters and other’s you list as Trust Worthy Sources for Viewing and Believing posted Articles, Were and More than likely are still part of the Constant Flow, of BS, Propaganda, and Misinformation that simply flows through most Main Stream Media. A person must go to great lengths to Verify, Verify before believing anything heard on Local or National News (Which I do Not and Have not for Many Years Watch or Read) Biden is not running the White House, many focus on his Blundering’s While All Burns and Goes up in a puff of Smoke and Ashes. Biden was not elected, he is illegitimately acting as the Elected. AZ shreds ballots (this week) after court order’s them to allow investigation of machines and votes cast. The head court in USA sits Silent, AZ Courts will do little if anything to these Law Breakers. Patrick Byrne has the full story on how this Election was stolen, few care, nothing will be done. Heritage Foundation, used to be regarded as a place of truth; caring for the Constitution, and Bill of Rights. Who did they hire a few days after 1/6 and now employ Mike Pence, Trader, Coward, should be charged with Treason, nothing will be done. The American Thinker has a Article Today on Mask and Socialist Uniform, yet everyplace you go these mind numb robots, and sheep have their faces covered with these Diapers. I live in an alternate world, The Movie The Body Snatcher’s. At Grocery store even though they are not forced to wear 90-95% of people have on a mask still, NO ONE IS LISTENING OR PAYING ATTENTION.
I wonder how much if a kickback Biden is receiving from China in order to do their bidding!! They are trying to become a world power and others are trying to help them for now until China takes over their country.
Biden’s foreign policy “unfocused” ? Gee, really? Who would have thought that something “unfocused” could originate with such a razor sharp acumen like President Bidumb ?
I agree with Victoria Johnson, I thought from the moment Biden was chosen as the Democratic cand. that it would be a third “Obama ” term. I didn’t like Obama from the beginning and still say he was an ___-_illegal President (not born in the US) said he was a Christian but did nothing but hinder the gospel message. esp. in the military. He an K H are running the show not Biden…
China Joe (our Turnip President, since his mental capacity is about at that level, but only on a good day) and his Demshevik handlers would probably subscribe to the proposition that if one throws enough gasoline on a raging fire, eventually the fire will be doused.
China really has nothing to fear from the US over the long run. The US will not go to war over Hong Kong being fully assimilated into Communist China. China will continue to build up in the South China Sea, which they consider as their lake and which will provide the first outer ring of islands for defense of their mainland. Their military and its armaments are improving, especially with regard to the missiles that can take out our carriers.
The Communist Chinese are taking the long view of history, with China accurately seeing itself as being ascendant and the West being in its descendancy. China’s modus operandi is like taking a spoon to nibble away at an iceberg, the ultimate result of which is to destroy the entire iceberg. The US really has no way to force the Chinese to back off or back down from any of their initiatives. And if things ever escalated to nuclear war and the US wipes out two thirds of their population, their remaining population would still be greater than the total current population of the US.
President Trump did a lot to call out the Chinese and slow them down, but now that is all being undone. The current situation does not auger well for America, and will continue to deteriorate as long as our Great Puppet President (or any other Demshevik) is at the helm on the American Stage.
Go Find and read this 14 or so page Article: Reuters and BBC Caught Taking Money for Propaganda Campaign. Then tell me you believe anything you hear in the MSM.
The only “FORIEGN POLICY” chinajoe has is, what is good for china is good for the chinajoe bank account, he and his “bagman” hunter made deals with foriegn energy co. in china and ukraine, he will get filthy rich when he destroys AMERICAN ENERGY INDEPENDENCE and drive AMERICA into third world status, when china gets what it wants all these evil, greedy, socialist elites will get a rude awakening when china no longer needs thier dumb donkeybutts anymore.
Not just his foreign policies….all of his policies and himself as he signs whatever the puppet masters put in front of him. He is a mentally incompetent and an illegal president, as he was NOT elected, but used voter fraud to be installed. He and his minions need to be removed as you would a cancer that is mestisizing in the body, we cannot continue to allow this cancer to remain….it needs to be cut out.