Foreign Policy Update – USA Gov Policy

ISRAEL

Secretary of State Michael Pompeo recently returned from a visit to the Middle East in which he met with top Israeli political leaders, including the Mossad. In a Tuesday interview he stated that the US still had a lot of work to do in the Middle East to isolate the regime in Iran. Pompeo also said he hopes for new normalization agreements to be signed in the next month or two. But all is not peaceful in the region. On Friday Iranian State television announced that its top nuclear physicist General Mohsen Fakhrizadeh has been assassinated and it believed Israel was to blame.

TAIWAN

Last week Taiwanese represents flew to Washington and signed the Economic Prosperity Network agreement. It covered economic collaboration, from semiconductors to 5G to healthcare supply chains and represents and expansion of US-Taiwan relations.

Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment Keith Krach said he thinks we will “… see a continued partnership there with Taiwan… I can tell you that the single most unifying, bipartisan issue that I’ve seen on Capitol Hill is this whole issue with regard to the Chinese Communist Party and their economic aggression, as well as other types of aggression. We’ve seen it increase over the last couple of years. We really saw it increase during the time of the pandemic.” He also criticized China for its treatment of its Muslim Uighur minority in Xinjiang and other human rights abuses.

KUWAIT

On Tuesday Secretary of State Pompeo met with Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah in Washington to discuss the US provision of food security aid to the country amid the pandemic. Pompeo noted that the US and Kuwait “fought together to defeat ISIS’s fraudulent caliphate” and that the US-Kuwaiti relationship is a “model of progress.”

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AFGHANISTAN

The US participated in the virtual 2020 Afghanistan Conference with participants from 66 countries and 32 international organizations. The State Department said that the event took place under extraordinary circumstances, at the “beginning of the final four-year cycle of the Transformation Decade, shortly after the start of the Afghanistan Peace Negotiations and during the COVID-19 pandemic.” Participants renewed their long-term commitment to support Afghanistan and an inclusive peace. The conference final document called for the participation of women, youth, ethnic, religious, and other minorities and affirmed that “any political settlement must protect the rights of all Afghans, including women, youth and minorities.”

CLEAN NETWORK IN LATIN AMERICA

Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment Keith Krach and Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Energy Resources Frank Fannon met with reports to discuss their recent travel to Latin America and the Caribbean to promote 5G security, expand the Clean Network in the Western Hemisphere, and to discuss regional growth in the critical mineral development sector and energy security. The Clean Network, according to Krach, has grown to 53 clean countries with the entry of Brazil, Ecuador, and the Dominican Republic in the last week. He said this is a big change from six months ago when it looked like China was imposing successfully its 5G technology on these countries. The Clean Network today represents two-thirds of the world’s GDP. Krach pointed out that “Huawei’s vaunted 90 deals have dwindled to just 12 outside of China. It has proven China, Inc. is beatable and, in the process, exposed its biggest weakness, and that’s trust.”

DARIA NOVAK served in the United States State Department during the Reagan Administration, and currently is on the Board of the American Analysis of News and Media Inc., which publishes usagovpolicy.com and the New York Analysis of Policy and Government. Each Saturday, she presents key updates on U.S. foreign policy from the State Department.

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Quick Analysis

Election Day is Only the Beginning, Part 2

There is a stark contrast in foreign affairs between the Biden-Harris record of a disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Putin invasion of Ukraine, China’s assault on the Philippine exclusive economic zone, and the widening Middle East catastrophe. The Trump White House archives provides a lengthy list of foreign policy results. “President Trump restored American sovereignty at home and American leadership abroad, partnering with strong and responsible nations to promote security, prosperity, and peace. Instead of sending American troops to fight in endless wars or giving cash to terrorists in countries like Iran, the United States under President Trump used bold, creative diplomacy to secure peace deals with our allies across the world. With the same “peace through strength” foreign policy that President Reagan once used to win the Cold War, President Trump rebuilt American deterrence power to hold our adversaries accountable. 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