On November 3, the most solid and stable democracy in the world called on its citizens to vote in order to elect its next president. After allegations of fraud, where the institutionalization of an empire like the United States was questioned, the late victory of the Democrats was determined, which was not as forceful as many had hoped.
On January 20, the country’s president-elect, Joe Biden, will take office. Some experts in politics and international relations ask themselves the following question:
What will be the position that your government will take on foreign policy? Because in North America there was a ferocious isolationism in the four years of the term of the outgoing president, Donald Trump, in addition to the trade war against the People’s Republic of China.
The important changes that are looming revolve around two well-defined areas: the Transatlantic Alliance, NATO, which Trump broke, leaving it very torn, and the issue of climate change. These two factors are predicted as the points that will mark the difference between the fundamental strategies of the two presidents.
In this regard, the position of the next president, Joe Biden, in the fight against climate change is important. He has stated his opposition to the decision to abandon the Paris Agreement as determined by Trump. Therefore, Biden understands the need to be part of it again to limit global warming and ensure sustainable development and adequate habitat for all citizens of the world. He also stated that the United States, as a country, will rejoin the World Health Organization, a key issue in the policy of the elected Democrat, due to the mismanagement that Trump had in the face of the phenomenon. of the pandemic.
Another question is whether the relationship with the European Union will be the same as in the past, as European leaders have learned that they cannot take for granted the fact that they can trust the United States, as they used to do before the rupture. Undoubtedly, the arrival of Biden could improve dialogue and strengthen NATO, because it, like former President Obama, supports relations with the bloc’s leaders and opposes Brexit.
As for Latin America, the transformations could focus on greater attention to the region, as today the countries of the New World need a strong partner to get out of the health crisis. It is no secret that this is an area under US geopolitical influence, due to an issue of geographical position and cultural affinity, where a strong presence of the People’s Republic of China has gradually been introduced at the economic level.
There is no marked variation in relations with the People’s Republic of China, because while it is true that Donald Trump’s undiplomatic forms attracted much attention, it is no less true that the Asian giant is a geopolitical rival of the The United States, which does not hide its global threat as a new survival, as the emergence of a new empire.
The change will reside more in form than in substance, perhaps using more tact and leaving behind the protectionism and isolationism that characterized the last four years, although no radical change is foreseen in the discourses of the current northern leaders. Americans.