integrate america into multilateral institutions. he wants to tackle global issues like climate change. his team also talks about picking up where the trumpet, ministration left off on china and working more with allies. so these are all topics which i think they'll be a lot of, you know, heads nodding in europe and here in berlin. support of that sort of agenda. my question about setting aside the tactics where i think president trump often inserted himself unnecessarily into our allies politics and made it difficult for them to work with us. joe biden take a different approach, but americans still want to see results, and that's the unfortunate we had 8 years of the obama administration. obama was beloved greeted by the crowds of thousands of people at the sago soil, a very close relationship with chancellor merkel. but he still privately criticized germany and other allies as free riders. he was frustrated by the same things. the president was frustrated about president trump just vocalize those concerns and started to produce some results. and so i think the,

the question is going to be after a change in tone will abide, administration be able to produce results on any number of these issues. and i think that's what americans across the political spectrum are going to be looking for, given that the biden team seems convinced that this different approach will also be successful and producing results. ok, so just as joe biden clearly and understandably believes his primary domestic responsibilities, protecting americans from the corona pandemic, he apparently sees protecting the planet from global warming, is his number one foreign policy challenge. wants to get serious on the very 1st day of his presidency. and bring the usa back into the paris climate, change an agreement climate to quote, we're going to the next shift of threat to humanity. and we have a moral obligation to do it will be in the world. we don't have

much time like donald trump is a supporter of the democrats several times that he wants to with on trade policy. confrontational stance with china in the hope that this will bring jobs back to the u.s. . he is unlikely to lift the special immediately joe biden selection is a good question. big question. so much to talk about down come to mind around the world at the moment, afghanistan, yemen, ethiopia, libya, syria, pakistan, ukraine. i could go on. yes, joe biden. going to make the world a safer place. well,

i think that he's going to try and i think that he's going to try to work together with allies that pushed, pushed aside. i think joe biden is going to face a similar challenge. the one, the obama faces he wanted to work with allies, he wanted to lead, but the american public is still in a disengagement mood. it's not just trying to voters that are less interested in what's going on in the world. if you look at polling prior to the elections, very few americans were factoring in foreign policy when they went to the voting booth. and so i think he's going to not just reach out, need to reach out to allies, but also needs to convince the american people that these are crises that require american leadership. especially when it requires some sort of economic or military commitment from the united states and countries working together, nations working together on what is what is going to be thinking as he looks on and sees all these events unfolding in the us at this point in time. biden is not

a good message for flubbing to put in because donald trump was weak for reasons we don't totally know, made him was a terrific person. for example, there's these kind slogans. so it will be for putin. but generally, i would say as the conflicts you mentioned, i mean, the biden is a good president. we don't make that judgment whether there will be war in syria in 5 years in libya or not even more important question is, will the west, the old west come together again and have a common interest in a common policy climate change maybe also iran, that's already is a 2nd from, from my point of view, it is important, but most important things is unite domestically the american population and unites the west in a partnership. not in the american leadership. you're very right about that. stacey

and climate change is a good openoffice, a conversation, for example, of those germans. but then more has to come and we have to agree on a common approach to china to climate change and trade. ok, jamie, you have for you have spent a lot of time in your life studying great power competition between the u.s. on one hand and russia, and china on the other. how should joe biden stand up to vladimir putin, xi jinping? i think in both cases, honestly, despite the rhetoric you often heard from president trump, his administration actually laid up a path that joe biden can follow. both with russia. where the u.s. reassured our central european allies deploying to help defend them from russian aggression. and on china laying out a strategy about how to deal with china's use of technology against the west and its efforts to infiltrate or to i think joe biden, i just want to pursue a different tone, will want to actually reach out and insult allies. but i don't actually don't think

is a significant course correction from where the u.s. was already headed under donald trump. and to what extent is trade policy foreign policy? to what extent are we going to see more trade war, memorial, trade confrontation, or are we going to see some trade reconciliation and some job growth creation? i think they'll be an attempt from the, by the ministration to pursue a trade reconciliation, especially with the e.u. . however, the era of grand ambition and trade, i think, is, has gone for the forseeable future. if you look at joe biden's platform, he's very clear that he's focused on shoring up the u.s. economy. on making sure the trade is fair, that it doesn't deprive americans of jobs. and so in terms of transatlantic trade agenda, i think it's going to be a very minimal minimal agenda focused on repairing some of the damage that donald trump did. and we began with some talking about climate change and that being very important on joe biden's agenda. and he also facing the challenge of bringing

americans together. that's a classic foreign policy field where americans can also agree, surely on climate change. i mean, well, i think that there are so many americans and i'm still puzzled by this that don't believe that climate change is actually a thing. so i think part of his challenge is to try to explain to them what it is and how it affects them. and then also, if he can bring in more jobs, that maybe that will even if you don't really care about the climate in the planet, which everybody should, maybe this will be an incentive for people to do so because they see that, oh, most of these jobs are coming into and to my area. it's the hard thing about climate change will not agree on a european american agenda that will be hard enough. that's a really important challenge. the important part is to get china into a climate. china is the biggest polluter. if you let china out of the game, we can't do anything really important in climate change. so that will be the new

challenge. and also that we need a common pressure from europe and the united states together on china. not to be climate neutral in 2060. that's far too late to start now and they have to get there. so it's not a chinese, the chinese when they see joe biden coming down wages. i think this is a tough guy. oh, this is it. this is a pushover. for us, it is a polite, tough guy. i think the chinese would love to get the, by the ministration wrapped up in 4 years of negotiations related to climate. because that's 4 years where the by the ministration will then not have the bandwidth to be talking about human rights abuses about hong kong about chinese technological infiltration of western democracy as leaders of the weaker. so i think that's going to be that could be an early tactic. you see from beijing to act like they're very interested in the climate discussion and kind of put out the bait for joe biden to take, to an extent you are in terms of a lot of the things you've done in your career. you're been a bit of an inside,

you have any clues for us about sort of where joe biden is going to go for. who, the, who his secretary of state is going to be some clues as to where, you know, this is going in the, in the, in the next couple of weeks. well, we'll have to see whether they're concerned about a republican senate, if there's a republican senate, he has to get his keep his cabinet positions through the senate. and so he might go with someone like tony blinken, his long time foreign policy adviser, a secretary of state who's seen as a rather centrist choice. so i think would get a lot of republican support as you well know, just just just a word of what you need expect immediately from joe biden, because he is easy. he's dyed in the wool in terms of being of foreign policy expert. he was in the senate foreign affairs committee think 36 years, 12 years, the chairman, you know, was going to do 1st. i think the 1st thing he will do is open the arms to what's europeans. old allies sent an envoy to go to brussels to berlin,

to paris as barack obama was then was presidential biden in 2009 at the beginning. so that will be the 1st step. but then we have to follow up with substantial agreements, what priorities? and in the end we might end up that our priorities, both priorities lie in asia and how to handle china. i think that's the way biden sees. if you see, i think he sees china is his number one concern for the years to come. it's the same way. stacey is joe biden, going to make the world a better, a safer place by you can't do any worse than donald trump, and my view will leave it to that kind of very much. going to go on the next in the way that the american foreign policy is going to develop in the next couple of weeks and months and shifts

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