In an effort to link America’s global role in the 21st century to the wishes and considerations of its other parents, President Biden has promoted his “foreign policy for the middle class” as a way to “succeed in the global economy. “Recognizing China as a competitor includes a list of very valid goals, adding task creation, infrastructure development, technological innovation, and the promise that our industrial relations will gain advantages for average Americans. Combined with their preference to rebuild cruelly worn ties with our European allies, the new The Administration Plan chartes a new path for the United States. However, if the transatlantic detail of the administration’s vision is to materialize, a new discussion will be needed with other Americans about the desire to work strongly with Europe.
The days of the totalitarian risk of the Soviet Union, the greatest point of promotion of the twentieth century for the American people, are over to explain why they had to have a deep interaction in partnership with European democracies. Much has replaced and today the limits of globalization are. In the midst of these changes, many Americans rightly doubt the kind of foreign policy that best serves their interests. An “economic foreign policy for the middle class” is designed to address them directly.
In his first foreign policy speech in the primaries, President Biden made his logic transparent and said, “There is no longer a transparent boundary between foreign policy and national politics. Every action we take in our conduct abroad, we will have to take it with the families that run Americans. “in mind . . . if foreign industry regulations do not oppose us . . . then there are no countries on Earth . . . that can adapt to us. “
However, it remains to be clarified how Biden’s technique develops with respect to the transatlantic community, the cornerstone of a global order that has brought unprecedented security and prosperity to millions of people on both sides of the Atlantic.
Focusing on the economic base that allows U. S. foreign policy to take root in America’s broad middle class, Biden intends to rebuild a national consensus, including Main Street and Wall Street. The fact that economic dating between the United States and Europe is the largest in the world, accounting for $4 billion in industry and investment activities every day. Any policy to help American staff will have to deal not only with China but also with Europe.
This is confusing because the percentage of Americans of European descent continues to decline, while those creating a circle of family ties to the Old World are increasing. Moreover, Generation Y and Generation Z Americans have little or no reminiscence of the Cold War conflicts that forged our relations with NATO partners.
The time has come for a renewed verbal exchange in the United States about our dating with Europe. The effective fight against a conflicting China is a smart position to begin with. The intelligent fortune or failure of American efforts to engage an expansionist China will feature in a giant component with cooperation with European Democracies. The two-component consensus in Washington on the risks emanating from Beijing is shared by most Americans. Biden’s leadership can use this as a key point to communicate to average elegance the importance of involving Europe.
Another key point is our economic interconnection. The European Union imported US goods worth $277 billion in 2019. Together, EU imports and investment provide jobs for tens of millions of Americans. In a competitive global market, Americans want to be aware that industry and investment are moving in both directions. Despite the existing industrial surplus of EU$153 billion, moreover, if the remarkable capacity for technological innovation in the United States is to be learned more at the transatlantic level, some policy coordination will need to be achieved in conversion spaces such as AI and biotechnology. .
The revitalized transatlantic relations, however, are not limited to the festival and the economy of the wonderful powers. Although separated by an ocean, our societies face similar challenges. With Biden’s return to the Paris Agreement, the United States and Europe are in a position Migration is as hot in Europe as in the United States, although the contexts are different, classes can be shared in our respective efforts towards migration in a pragmatic and humane way. Americans manifest themselves in the call for wonderful social justice in 2020, marginalized communities in Western Europe have discovered the inspiration to mobilize for their own good as well as for the wonderful good. They will also gain advantages from wonderful connectivity in a spirit of empathy and solidarity. .
From our usual defense to shared global challenges, our long-term transatlantic relationships are crucial, but they are based on something more basic than security interests and portfolios. Our open societies are rooted in shared democratic values and institutions. human rights and dignity. We are empowered through our representative government and our lax markets.
Sustainable and winning relationships of all kinds are based on non-unusual values. This is what distinguishes our transatlantic partnerships from bilateral transactions. The new administration’s foreign economic policy would do much for the transatlantic network by articulating pre-middle-class issues, offering a mutual representation of American interests and values.
Richard Kraemer is the chairman of the board of directors of the United States-Europe Alliance and Scott Cullinane is the Executive Director of the United States-Europe Alliance.
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