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What next for US foreign policy?

As part of the ´óÏó´«Ã½ World Service's 'US Elections 2020: What the World Wants' series, what are the key differences between a Biden foreign policy and that of President Trump?

While US domestic policy has taken centre stage in the race for the White House, whichever man wins the presidency will also help define America’s place in the world for years to come. President Trump won 2016’s election, in part, on promising to reduce the number of military and diplomatic entanglements the country was involved in across the globe. In the Middle East he pulled US forces out of Syria, withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal negotiated during the Obama administration, and has strengthened ties with regional allies such as Israel, Saudi Arabia and the UAE. In Asia the US is engaged in a trade war with its single biggest trading partner - China. During his first term Donald Trump also had a frosty relationship with many of his NATO allies - and a much closer one with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin than any of his predecessors. Did those newly-defined strategic partnerships herald new achievements? Joe Biden has promised to turn back the clock on many of Mr Trump’s ‘America First’ themed policies, but which ones? And has the role the US plays on the world stage changed forever? As part of the ´óÏó´«Ã½ World Service's 'US Elections 2020: What the World Wants' series, Ritula Shah and a panel of expert guests discuss what's next for American foreign policy.

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Sat 24 Oct 2020 03:06GMT

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Rebeccah Heinrichs - National Security Analyst and Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington DC

PJ Crowley - A former US Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs in the Obama administration and author of: 'Red Line: American Foreign Policy in a Time of Fractured Politics and Failing States'

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