Students Can Save America s Foreign Policy Agenda
08.Feb.2021 9:00 AM . 8 min read
During the 2020 presidential campaign, then-candidate Joe Biden promised to forgive US$10,000 in student loans per borrower. This was promised against the backdrop of an upsurge in media coverage on the burden of loan forgiveness and drawbacks to cutting investments in higher education in the United States. Yet, hardly anyone analyzes both the tangible and intangible benefits that investing in the next generation can have upon strengthening American national security and foreign policy interests. At a recent United States Institute of Peace dialogue between current and former national security advisers, President Biden’s National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan lamented that “the most profound [and] pressing national security challenge for the United States is getting our own house in order” because “we have to put ourselves in a position of strength to be able to deal with the chal
President Joe Biden’s team has identified China as one of its biggest foreign policy challenges, and stressed the importance of allies in responding to.
President Joe Biden's team has identified China as one of its biggest foreign policy challenges, and stressed the importance of allies in responding to Beijing.
January 19, 2021
The incoming Biden administration will inherit four major crises the pandemic, climate change, racial injustice, and a fracturing political system. It will also face a U.S.-China relationship that is very different from the one President Obama and President-elect Biden bequeathed to the Trump administration four years ago. Figuring out how to manage this inheritance will be the chief foreign policy challenge of the new administration.
Since 2017, America’s China policy has shifted sharply away from patient multilateralism and integration toward impatient unilateralism and decoupling. Some believe that the incoming Biden administration will have little room for maneuver. This is in part because of Beijing’s intransigence and the many signals China has sent that it intends to double down on domestic repression, state capitalism, and external assertiveness. And it is in part a consequence of the flurry of restrictions and penalties enacted in the waning months of
Thursday, January 21, 2021 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
The event will be webcast live from this page.
In the last four years, America’s China policy has shifted away from patient multilateralism and integration toward impatient unilateralism and decoupling. Some believe that there is little room for maneuver by the incoming Biden administration to adjust China policy because of Beijing’s intransigence and a flurry of actions adopted in the waning months of the Trump administration, which together lock in strategic rivalry. Others believe there is more opportunity for policy innovation than meets the eye, particularly if US-China relations are viewed through broader adjustments in the administration’s overall domestic and foreign policy frameworks. In this roundtable discussion, a panel of leading experts from the Trustee Chair