Biden’s foreign policy strategy opens doors for China, other adversaries, experts say

President Biden’s foreign policy decisions have emboldened American opponents, with some experts saying the administration has deteriorated America’s role as a global leader.

“I’ve always been a firm believer that the president of the United States is in charge of the world and Congress is in charge of domestic policy,” Fred Zeidman, co-chair and director of the Council for a Secure America, told Fox News Digital. . “Right now we have a president who I think is totally focused on domestic politics and has totally ignored world politics.”

Zeidman’s comments come as Biden has faced several high-profile foreign policy crises since taking office, including the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Russian invasion of Ukraine and an increasingly hostile stance from countries such as China, North Korea and Iran.

According to Zeidman, the growing dangers facing the world can be traced to Biden’s foreign policy strategy, which uses a similar strategy to former President Barack Obama that undermines the United States’ ability to be a feared deterrent to world aggressors. .

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“This started under, not his immediate predecessor, but under Barack Obama … to destroy American exceptionalism,” Zeidman said.

Zeidman argued that not only has Biden “weakened our military,” but he has also pursued domestic policies that have limited the United States’ ability to project power. He pointed to Biden’s energy policies, arguing moves to limit domestic oil production have left the United States dependent on foreign energy sources and unable to fill the vacuum for allies facing an energy crisis due to Russia’s war in Ukraine.

“Energy has been the source of probably every war in the history of the world,” he said.

Zeidman also highlighted the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, arguing that the spectacle unfolding for the world was incentive enough for American adversaries to pursue an aggressive course.

“I still believe our response in Afghanistan is what hastened the Russian invasion of Ukraine,” Zeidman said, noting that China could also see this moment as an opportunity to move on Taiwan as well.

These problems, according to Zeidman, can all be traced to a foreign policy philosophy that began under Obama, which has ceded America’s leadership and place as the predominant world power.

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“President Obama has always been philosophically an underdog, and so he’s always been an underdog, which probably would be anyone who isn’t American, anyone who isn’t NATO,” Zeidman said.

James Phillips, senior foreign policy researcher at the Heritage Foundation, also believes that much of Biden’s foreign policy philosophy is a carryover from the Obama administration.

Phillips pointed out that much of the Biden administration is made up of people who also served in the Obama administration, which has led Biden to pursue an “illusory deal with Iran at the expense of Israel, Saudi Arabia and other threatened partners from Iran”.

“The Biden administration’s foreign policy is essentially a replica of Obama’s foreign policy, particularly in the Middle East,” Phillips told Fox News Digital. “Like Obama, he seeks to downplay the threats posed by Iran, while justifying a withdrawal of US forces in the Middle East as part of a ‘pivot’ to the Indo-Pacific, ostensibly to contain China.”

Phillips argued that the result was not to contain China but rather to invite their influence into a Middle East where the United States has traditionally been the predominant power.

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“China has turned to the Middle East to strengthen relations with Iran and has cultivated much better relations with Saudi Arabia and other Arab states, which increasingly doubt they can depend on the Biden administration,” Phillips said .

But Joel Rubin, a former deputy secretary of state in the Obama administration, argues that the deal negotiated with Iran under Obama was the most effective way to curb Iranian ambitions to build a nuclear weapon.

“On Iran, what Trump did was destroy a multilateral nuclear weapons agreement,” Rubin told Fox News Digital. “The result is that Iran is now closer to a bomb than it has ever been.”

Though efforts to restore some sort of deal have been stalled, Rubin noted that it can be difficult to restore diplomacy once it has been abandoned. However, he argued that Biden’s push to return to the deal would be a better step toward containing a potentially nuclear Iran.

“If you want to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, the agreement we had before was to do it,” Rubin said. “Trump’s maximum pressure policy was implemented after he withdrew from the deal, and we see the results, which is that Iran is still screwing up the Middle East, oppressing its own people and, among other , has a much more advanced nuclear program.

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Rubin argues that Biden’s foreign policy doctrine was aimed at restoring American leadership around the world, including restoring ties with NATO allies who often felt alienated under the Trump administration. He also highlighted Biden’s work in forging new commitments and alliances in Asia, something designed to help address the emerging threat China poses.

“To restore and accelerate our multilateral alliances and put American leadership at the top of that pyramid,” Rubin noted as one of Biden’s primary foreign policy goals.

In addition to alliance building, Rubin pointed to Biden’s internal agenda as a pillar of Biden’s philosophy, calling it “building from the inside out.”

“The idea of ​​investing in America and rebuilding it was an idea Donald Trump had for four years and he never figured out how to do it,” Rubin said. “Joe Biden is now worth $2 trillion in national industry spending…for the future, as well as our climate infrastructure and energy infrastructure, climate resilience, new technologies, roads, bridges. .. it didn’t happen under Trump, it happened under Biden.”

Rubin added that another key pillar of Biden’s foreign policy strategy is investing in “hard power” infrastructure, pouring money into the Defense Department to build and repair what has long been neglected.

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“You have a mixture of economics and diplomacy and defense,” Rubin said. “It’s not just about sales, Trump has done a lot of sales of American military equipment, but not a lot of investments in the defense sector. We are now learning of areas where investments need to be made largely due to this hot war that we are supporting in Ukraine”.

Taken together, Rubin said Biden’s foreign policy strategy has been to rebuild America’s role as a leader.

“Are we leaders or do we follow? Are we isolated?” Ruby said. “How do you cover China when you are alone? You don’t. You try, but only sanctions against China, when countries are running away, it’s not good. But now they are not running away,” he added, pointing to the increase in Japan’s defense spending “in cooperation with the United States”.

However, Zeidman believes the United States has done far from restoring its role as a global leader under Biden.

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“All the countries that depended on the United States to defend them … quickly came to the conclusion that they could no longer depend on the United States,” he said, pointing to the US withdrawal from Afghanistan and how it was perceived. “We must have a strong military. The world must understand that we have the ability, the will and the desire to support countries that are friends.”