{"id":4126,"date":"2021-01-01T17:21:40","date_gmt":"2021-01-01T17:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4126"},"modified":"2021-01-01T17:21:40","modified_gmt":"2021-01-01T17:21:40","slug":"4-looming-foreign-policy-crises-that-could-derail-bidens-agenda-early-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4126","title":{"rendered":"4 looming foreign policy crises that could derail Biden\u2019s agenda early on"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“President-elect Joe Biden<\/a> may want his administration to focus on long-term issues like the coronavirus pandemic, climate change, rebuilding alliances, and America\u2019s relationship with China, but some key near-term foreign policy problems will likely require his attention first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the assassination of its top nuclear scientist<\/a> by an unknown attacker, Iran might be less willing to engage in diplomacy with America and instead seek revenge by targeting US officials. North Korea could test an intercontinental ballistic missile<\/a> early in Biden\u2019s term to try to gauge the new administration\u2019s response. The last remaining nuclear arms control deal between the US and Russia<\/a> is set to expire just over two weeks after Biden takes office. And the reduced number of American troops in Afghanistan<\/a> could derail sputtering peace talks and worsen the country\u2019s security situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Such a dilemma wouldn\u2019t be unique to Biden. Every new president comes in with ideas on how to handle larger global problems, only to have the colloquial \u201ctyranny of the inbox\u201d monopolize their time. \u201cIf you assume that foreign policy is less than half, and maybe a quarter, of the president\u2019s time, then that really shines a light on how serious this inbox problem is,\u201d said Christopher Preble, co-director of the New American Engagement Initiative at the Atlantic Council think tank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once he\u2019s in the Oval Office, then, Biden will likely find his hopes of tackling grander foreign policy challenges dashed by the effort he\u2019ll have to expend cleaning up more immediate messes.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/21726445\/iran-north-korea-russia-afghanistan-joe-biden-foreign-policy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“President-elect Joe Biden may want his administration to focus on long-term issues like the coronavirus pandemic, climate change, rebuilding alliances, and America\u2019s relationship with China, but some key near-term foreign policy problems will likely require his attention first.<\/p>\n

After the assassination of its top nuclear scientist by an unknown attacker, Iran might be less willing to engage in diplomacy with America and instead seek revenge by targeting US officials. North Korea could test an intercontinental ballistic missile early in Biden\u2019s term to try to gauge the new administration\u2019s response. The last remaining nuclear arms control deal between the US and Russia is set to expire just over two weeks after Biden takes office. And the reduced number of American troops in Afghanistan could derail sputtering peace talks and worsen the country\u2019s security situation.<\/p>\n

Such a dilemma wouldn\u2019t be unique to Biden. Every new president comes in with ideas on how to handle larger global problems, only to have the colloquial \u201ctyranny of the inbox\u201d monopolize their time. \u201cIf you assume that foreign policy is less than half, and maybe a quarter, of the president\u2019s time, then that really shines a light on how serious this inbox problem is,\u201d said Christopher Preble, co-director of the New American Engagement Initiative at the Atlantic Council think tank.<\/p>\n

Once he\u2019s in the Oval Office, then, Biden will likely find his hopes of tackling grander foreign policy challenges dashed by the effort he\u2019ll have to expend cleaning up more immediate messes.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[435,375,272,355,314,156,338,277,444,276,994,315],"class_list":["post-4126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-afghanistan","tag-biden","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-iran","tag-missiles","tag-north-korea","tag-nuclear-energy","tag-nuclear-proliferation","tag-nuclear-weapons","tag-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4127,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4126\/revisions\/4127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}