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Biden fears foreign policy shift under Trump is "closed-off and clannish
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-fears-foreign-policy-shift-under-trump-is-closed-off-and-clannish/By Kathryn Watson CBS News October 5, 2017, 7:30 PM
Former Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday lamented that the foreign policy approach the Trump administration is taking "endangers" America's interests and America's standing on the world stage.
Biden, giving a Center for Strategic and International Studies lecture in Washington, D.C., said he fears the U.S. is "walking down a very dark path" that "isolates" America from the rest of the international community. Biden said America under President Trump has shifted toward a "theory of foreign policy that is closed-off and clannish," and frames foreign affairs issues as "us and them." Under the Trump administration, Biden said diplomacy is handled with the mindset that, for America to succeed, others must lose.
"This administration casts global affairs in a dog-eat-dog competition," as if it's a competition for who gets to build the latest high-rise structure, Biden said. "It's this brand of zero-sum thinking that I find the most disturbing and dangerous."
Biden also expressed concern that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's State Department, which has struggled to fill key positions, doesn't have the manpower it needs to perform its functions well. Go to the seventh floor of the State Department, where the highest officials work, and there's an "echo," Biden said
Biden, giving a Center for Strategic and International Studies lecture in Washington, D.C., said he fears the U.S. is "walking down a very dark path" that "isolates" America from the rest of the international community. Biden said America under President Trump has shifted toward a "theory of foreign policy that is closed-off and clannish," and frames foreign affairs issues as "us and them." Under the Trump administration, Biden said diplomacy is handled with the mindset that, for America to succeed, others must lose.
"This administration casts global affairs in a dog-eat-dog competition," as if it's a competition for who gets to build the latest high-rise structure, Biden said. "It's this brand of zero-sum thinking that I find the most disturbing and dangerous."
Biden also expressed concern that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's State Department, which has struggled to fill key positions, doesn't have the manpower it needs to perform its functions well. Go to the seventh floor of the State Department, where the highest officials work, and there's an "echo," Biden said
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