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Kumabjorn
Noterade att Bidens nya specialsändebud med ansvar för problem på den koreanska halvön tydligen förväntas fullfölja uppgiften som ett extraknäck. Han skall samtidigt vara ambassadör i Djakarta. Tolkas rimligen som att Biden vill ta det ”strategiska tålamodet” till en ny nivå. Vi tycker Pyongyang är så pass oviktigt och ointressant att vi sparar in lite felräkningspengar genom att utse en som får ha det som extra uppgift.
Kanske inte förvånande.
Intressant artikel i The New Yorker om Bidens utrikespolitik. Biden har inte mycket tid för denna och neokonservatismen håller på att dö också utan Trump. Detta har signifikans för Bidens Koreapolitik. Det blir inga Trumplika möten med ledarskapet i Pyongyang, men det blir ungefär lika lite verkstad som då och Biden följer troligen Trump i hälarna då det gäller att inte provocera fram stora testskjutningar i DFRK.
Lite längre citat för sammanhang:
The Larger Lesson of Liz Cheney’s Ouster
”Perhaps the only thing Barack Obama and Donald Trump have in common is that public reaction against the Iraq War—of which Dick Cheney was a key architect and Liz Cheney a strong supporter—helped put both of them in the White House. Even if Trump somehow lost his grip on Republican primary voters, few G.O.P. officeholders would feel safe in espousing the kind of foreign policy that Liz Cheney likes, and the Democrats won’t find it easy to convince their voters that they can engage vigorously around the world in more productive ways.
Yet the Biden Administration, so ambitious in domestic policy, has been far quieter in foreign policy. It has clearly paid close attention to Trump’s success at tapping into the populist resentment of, to use one of his favorite terms, globalists. The Blinken-Kagan article criticized the Obama Administration, in which Blinken served, for “doing too little” in Syria, and criticized Trump for pulling out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. But Biden has not reversed those policies, or dramatically rejected most of Trump’s other foreign-policy positions, including his intention to end the American presence in Afghanistan.
In recent years, foreign-policy-makers in both parties have engendered public mistrust, presiding over not just endless wars but also a spectacular collapse of the global economy, a poorly handled immigration crisis, and, most recently, a pandemic that didn’t have to be as devastating as it is. It’s going to be a daunting task for the Biden Administration to create a meaningfully different new role for America, one that entails neither withdrawing from the world nor vainly attempting to assert dominance.”
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/24/the-larger-lesson-of-liz-cheneys-ouster
