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Challenges that Biden's withdrawal brings / Uncertainty in wars and trade disputes

2024-07-22 13:27:00, Kosova & Bota CNA
Challenges that Biden's withdrawal brings / Uncertainty in wars and trade
Joe Biden

Joe Biden's withdrawal from the US presidential race injects greater uncertainty into the world at a time when Western leaders are grappling with wars in Ukraine and Gaza, a more secure China in Asia and the rise of the far right in Europe.

During a five-decade career in politics, Biden developed extensive personal relationships with numerous foreign leaders that none of the potential replacements in the Democratic bid can match. After his announcement, messages of support and gratitude for his years of service poured in from around the world.

The scope of the foreign policy challenges facing the next US president makes it clear how important what happens in Washington is to the rest of the planet.

With Vice President Kamala Harris seen as a possible replacement for Biden, Israelis on Sunday scrambled to understand what her candidacy would mean for their country as he faces growing global isolation over his campaign. military against Hamas.

"With the departure of Biden, Israel has lost perhaps the last Zionist president. A new Democratic candidate will change the dynamic," said a former Israeli diplomat in New York.

Biden's staunch defense of Israel since the October 7 Hamas attack is rooted in his half-century of support for the country as senator, vice president and then president.

UKRAINE

Any Democratic nominee would likely continue Biden's legacy of staunch military support for Ukraine. But frustration with the Biden administration has grown in Ukraine and Europe over the slow pace of US aid and restrictions on the use of Western weapons. Trump has promised to end Russia's war against Ukraine within a day if he is elected president.

CHINA

In recent months, both Biden and Trump have tried to tell voters who can best resist Beijing's growing military and war power and protect American businesses and workers from low-priced Chinese imports. Biden has raised tariffs on electric vehicles from China and Trump has promised to impose 60% tariffs on all Chinese products.

Challenges that Biden's withdrawal brings / Uncertainty in wars and trade
Joe Biden

Trump's "America First" doctrine exacerbated tensions with Beijing. But disagreements with the geopolitical rival and economic colossus over wars, trade, technology and security continued during Biden's tenure.

IRAN

With Iran's proxies in the Middle East increasingly embroiled in the Israel-Hamas war, the US faces a region in turmoil.

Yemen's Iranian-backed Houthis struck Tel Aviv for the first time last week, triggering retaliatory Israeli strikes inside war-torn Yemen. Simmering tensions and cross-border attacks between Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group and the Israeli military have raised fears of an all-out regional conflagration.

The US and its allies have accused Iran of expanding its nuclear program and enriching uranium to an unprecedented level of 60%, near weapons-grade levels.

After then-President Trump in 2018 pulled out of Tehran's nuclear deal with world powers, Biden said he wanted to reverse his predecessor's tough anti-Iran stance. But the Biden administration has maintained heavy economic sanctions against Iran and overseen failed efforts to renegotiate the deal.

Challenges that Biden's withdrawal brings / Uncertainty in wars and trade
Donald Trump

EUROPE AND NATO

Many Europeans were happy to see Trump go after his years of disparaging the European Union and undermining NATO. Trump's seemingly dismissive attitude toward European allies in last month's presidential debate did nothing to assuage those concerns. Biden, on the other hand, has supported close American relations with the leaders of the bloc.

That closeness was evident after Biden's decision to drop out of the race. The question of whether NATO can maintain its momentum in supporting Ukraine and checking the ambitions of other authoritarian states hangs in the balance of this presidential election, analysts say.

MEXICO

The close relationship between Mexico and the US has been marked in recent years by disputes over trade, energy and climate change. Since President Andrés Manuel López Obrador took power in 2018, the two countries have found common ground on the issue of migration — with Mexico making it more difficult for migrants to cross its country to the U.S. border and the U.S. they are not putting pressure on other issues.

López Obrador's administration maintained that policy while Trump was president and continued it in Biden's term./ CNA





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