Former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley urged President-elect Joe Biden not to abandon all of President Trump’s foreign policy and urged him to stand firm against China and Latin American strongmen and take advantage of the achievements of the administration in the Middle East.
“Biden is sure to feel strong party pressure to reject most, if not all, of Trump’s foreign policy. That would be a mistake,” Haley, who served from 2017 to 2019, wrote in a post in the Washington Post. Wednesday.
“Erasing the successes and strategies of the past four years would jeopardize American security and interests,” Haley said.
He described Biden’s plan to immediately rejoin the Paris climate deal as “stupid”, saying it would put the US “at the mercy of other nations, such as China, which are trying to strengthen at the expense of of the United States “.
He went on to outline three areas of Trump’s foreign policy that Biden should maintain.
Calling Communist China the “most serious global threat” to the United States, Haley said Beijing is determined to “outdo” the United States economically and militarily.
“This truth explains why Trump pursued a military buildup, punished Chinese companies for stealing American trade secrets, punished Chinese leaders and companies for their horrific human rights abuses, and strengthened coordination with allies and “US partners to hold China accountable. Biden would jeopardize US interests if it reversed course,” he said.
“The right way is to further limit Chinese access to our companies, telecommunications and universities, as the United States did with the Soviet Union, while consolidating additional military, economic and diplomatic forces,” he said. , pointing out Beijing’s aggressive behavior toward Taiwan and Hong Kong.
“If Biden fails to back down, there will be no stopping Chinese communist aggression in Asia and beyond,” he said.
Haley, a former governor of South Carolina, recommended to Biden that he follow Trump’s pressure campaign to thwart communism in Cuba and socialism in Venezuela.
He noted that “it would irritate part of his party’s left wing, but his views did not make politics a successful one under the Obama administration. Now it would be no different. In Latin America, like anywhere else, Biden would do well to defend the enemies of the United States and defend the values of the United States. “
At the same time, the former vice president should work on Trump’s achievements in the Middle East and continue to foster the building of relations between Israel and its Arab neighbors.
“Trump refused to accept the tired thought that the Palestinian cause was the key to a broader regional peace. And he put strong pressure on Iran’s murderous regime, which hates the Arab world almost as much as it hates Israel. and our country, ”he wrote.
“Trump’s actions aligned American, Israeli and Arab politics with peace as a result,” he said. Since the United Arab Emirates recognized Israel in the signing of the Abraham Accords in September, Morocco, Bahrain and Sudan have joined.
Trump also withdrew the U.S. from the Obama-era nuclear plan with Iran signed by several world powers and re-established crippling economic sanctions against the Islamic Republic.
Biden has indicated that he would return the United States to the nuclear deal.