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Joe Biden brings
hope and heightened
expectations globally
- from the Iran
Nuclear deal, where
there was change in
U.S. policy.
Joe Biden, US, President-Elect and merged China and US flag
US: Joe Biden inauguration, the transition,

the expectations and China

he inauguration of Joe Biden as the be pulling out of the Trans-Pacific settlements strangling humanitarian aid
T46th president of the United States, Partnership (TPP), a trade agreement to the Palestinians..
Jan, 20th, will mark the commencement between 12 Pacific Rim countries that With President-elect Joe Biden, it’s likely
of the four-year term of Joe Biden as took seven years to negotiate and was the U.S. foreign policy establishment will
president and Kamala Harris as Vice signed by then-President Barack Obama seek a return to the Obama-era modus
president. But beyond that, it marks a in his second term. Its goals were to operandi: an emphasis on two states
ground shaking transition that will see boost exports, remove tariffs and non- and maintaining the illusion of being an
President Donald Trump’s leave office as tariff barriers, and open access to more honest broker, even if in practice Israel
a one-term PROTUS, with his nationalist markets. is favored.
and disruptive policies dumped. It was a turn toward protectionist President Donald Trump ran for office
Joe Biden brings hope and heightened measures. By abandoning a deal that pledging to rewrite the U.S. economic
expectations globally—from the Iran would give American companies an relationship with China, which he
Nuclear deal, where there was change opportunity to seek cheap labor abroad; blamed for hollowing out America’s
in U.S. policy: Trump called for other Trump signaled that his priority is to manufacturing base and impoverishing
world powers to abandon the nuclear reduce the number of jobs leaving the its workers. His four years in the White
accord, which was barely surviving country. House have shown limited impact on the
after he withdrew the U.S. in 2018 and In a memorandum announcing metrics he laid out.
American companies cite much the
Iran has unraveled its cooperation since the move, Trump favored bilateral same concerns -- and the same growth
2019—leading to renewed tension in the negations and said they were to be objectives -- with regard to China
gulf. pursued whenever possible to “promote today as they did when Trump took
Then there is the issue of climate change American industry, protect American office. The unprecedented trade war he
and the Paris Accord. Donald Trump workers, and raise American wages.” launched, breaking Republican free-
has pulled the United States out of the Trump said the deal “punishes the trade orthodoxy along the way, ended
Paris Agreement - an international United States,” which he claimed was up costing American factory jobs, not
treaty adopted by nearly 200 countries the world leader in environmental creating them, economists say
to limit the impacts of one of the biggest protection, without imposing any Wang, China’s state councillor and
threats to people and nature of our time “meaningful obligations” on the world’s foreign minister, said in an interview
- climate change. It is expected that Joe leading polluters. with Xinhua news agency and other
Biden will reverse the decision and have Historically, the U.S. has ranked as one state media outlets that recent U.S.
US re-join the Paris Accord. of the worst emitters of carbon dioxide, policies towards China had harmed the
President Donald Trump campaigned but it’s been noted as recently as this interests of both countries and brought
on deals. Making deals — like an year that its contribution to CO2 levels huge dangers to the world.
Israel-Palestine peace accord. And globally has been on the decline. His recent barbs at China
breaking deals — like the Trans-Pacific Trump suddenly dropped objections notwithstanding, Joe Biden’s presidency
Partnership and the Iran Deal, both of long held by bipartisan U.S. presidential is widely expected to improve relations
which he labeled disasters. administrations over decades. between Washington and Beijing, after
Just days after assuming office, Trump Establishing a U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem, four years of escalating tensions under
delivered on a campaign promise amid Israel’s annexing of the disputed the administration of Donald Trump’s
and announced that the U.S. would Golan Heights, ramping up illegal administration.

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