Last week President Biden traveled to South Korea and Japan to meet with allies and discuss strategy to deal with China.  The centerpiece of the visit was a mini regional summit in Japan when the President was joined by the leaders of India and Australia.  The Australians had just conducted an election and the new Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, was quickly sworn in so that he could attend the meeting. 

The leaders all agreed to try and re-establish a more formal trading partnership that slipped away when President Trump rejected the Transpacific Partnership (TPP) that had been negotiated during the Obama Administration.  In these trade talks it may be hard to separate optics from policy, but the talks will be an important foreign policy and trade issue to follow in coming months.

The President also made a diplomatic gaffe, something that is not uncommon for President Biden, when he bluntly answered a reporter’s question on US/Taiwan relations stating that the US would fight to defend Taiwan if there was a Chinese invasion.  In the past there had been a policy of ambiguity, and Administration officials had to do some quick cleanup that our policy of vagueness had not changed. The US/China relations remain one of the key global issues for the Ad...

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