7 Promising Signals about Biden’s Foreign Policy

Mohammad Gamal
2 min readMay 14, 2021

The first 100 days of the Joe Biden presidency is so Revealing, the old determined Joe never left the country for any foreign visits, making it very clear that domestic issues are his number one priority, with his administration very focused in 3 major files: Vaccination, Economy and Social Reconciliation. And although he didn’t set foot outside US borders since inaugurated in January 20th, after two weeks of the historical capitol insurgency events in January 6th, he managed to set clear, firm and game-changer foreign policy tone of voice and rhetoric.

Just remember those 7 strong signals:

  1. He faced crown prince MBS (Muhammad Bin Salman) with CIA findings to tie him with Jamal Khashoggi murder, he never called MBS and started to “Re-Calibrate” US/ Saudi relationship, preferring only to talk to the King himself, setting an example: you can’t be involved in assassination and get away with it (Trump days are over, in capital huge letters).
  2. Facing Russia and arrogant Putinsm, he called Putin a “Killer” with “No Soul”, in referral with Russian habit of assassinating opposition leaders.
  3. Facing the new Caliph “Erdogan” of Turkey with astonishing fact: your so precious dreamy Ottoman Caliphate has done a horrible genocide, Biden is the first American president to recognize killing and deporting 1.5 million Armenians during WWI by the ottomans.
  4. During declaring his Foreign Policy platform for the first time after inauguration, Biden mentioned the top international partners of the US, friends he’s going to work with: Canada, Mexico, UK, France, Japan, South Korea, NATO, Australia. He didn’t mention Israel, he didn’t mention Saudi Arabia, he didn’t mention any country not aligned with his new moral Compass.
  5. Acknowledging the fact that China has “Concentration Camps” in mainland china, holding the minority Uighurs in internment camps and other human rights abuses. Biden clearly states: China will pay the price.
  6. Biden is back to the climate treaty, setting a world example by challenging America minds and muscles with an ambitious historical target: The New Target Aims at 50–52 Percent Reduction in U.S. Greenhouse Gas Pollution from 2005 Levels in 2030. This is Huge.
  7. Biden is talking to Iran from day one, launching very serious negotiations boot camp in Vienna along with European partners, Russians and the IMF. The main target: restoring the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran. Making Middle East less violent and end proxy war in Yemen (fueled by Iran and Gulf).
President Biden delivers foreign policy remarks

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Mohammad Gamal

Author and Entrepreneur, Winner of MIT Pan Arab Award 2015, Founder & Co-CEO of Kotobna.