Foreign Policy Update – USA Gov Policy

CROATIA

Secretary of State Michael Pompeo met with Croatian Prime Minister Plenkovic during his recent trip to Croatia. He announced the United States will remain engaged in the region to ensure a good outcome for Europe. Pompeo said he hopes Croatia decides to go with the F-16 planes and that it is a sovereign decision which will deliver value to the Croatian people. He added it is “part of a larger context of the relationship between the United States and Europe where we will show up aiming to make sure that we deliver good security outcomes…” Pompeo assured the Prime Minister that the United States will “use its economic and diplomatic tools to try and drive these processes forward in a way that is serious and thoughtful and engages not only the capacities that the EU and NATO bring, but also those that the United States can uniquely bring to these conversations.”

TURKEY

Syrian fighters in Libya have been moved through southern Turkey into Azerbaijan, according to reports seen by Secretary Pompeo. He believes Azerbaijan instigated this conflict and questions why Turkish President Erdogan would allow that to happen at this time when tensions were easing in the Eastern Mediterranean. Pompeo added that he hopes “it’s not the case… [It] created more instability, more turbulence, more conflict, more fighting, less peace.” Pompeo urged all nations to “just stay out” of the fighting other than to urge a ceasefire.

IRAN

President Trump is continuing the maximum pressure campaign against Iran as part of his broader efforts in the Middle East to create Middle Eastern stability. In a Thursday interview, Secretary Pompeo said that the wrong way to approach Iran was “to appease, to give them money, to give them wealth, to create opportunities for them to continue to build out their terror campaign around the world, so we’ve stopped that.”

President Rouhani, according to Pompeo, said that they have lost $150 billion as a result of the American efforts. Pompeo added that the $150 billion “would have cost people all around the world their lives” and that the US has been successful in this effort.

VATICAN

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A senior State Department official, while in Rome for meetings with the Vatican, said that they US was having “very productive engagement… and a very respectful exchange…” concerning more than a million Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and Kyrgyz locked up in internment camps. The official told Vatican officials that Protestant house churches are being burned down, Catholic sermons are being monitored and Catholic priests and laypeople are being abused in China. The official added that Tibetans who are undergoing a new wave of oppression along with Falun Gong adherents are suffering enormously under the Chinese communist regime.

PACIFIC ISLANDS

The United States reaffirmed its pledge to a free and open Indo-Pacific region. The State Department is doubling from $100 million last year to $200 million in 2020, the amount of new funding as part of the Pacific Pledge. This figure includes more than $78 million in new programming across the Indo-Pacific Pillars and $130 million in support for the region’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the Office of the State Department Spokesperson, this assistance is in addition to the approximately $350 million that US agencies invest annually in projects, assistance, and operations to build a more prosperous future for people in the Pacific Island region.

CHINA

The tide has turned against China, according to Secretary Pompeo, as “The Chinese Government unleashed a virus on the world…. They deceived the world and they covered up.” While traveling in Europe Pompeo addressed press questions about China’s 5G network: “I’m confident that many more European countries now, frankly because of just sharing information with them, they’re going to make their own sovereign decision that says no, we don’t want our citizens’ data in the hands of the Chinese Communist Party. I think every European country now understands this, is increasingly aware of it.” Washington has reached out to Europe to provide data concerning the Chinese security threat in recent months. It appears countries are now holding off on implementing the Chinese version of 5G on the continent.

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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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. Perhaps most important, the Trump Administration reversed Washington’s decades-long, bipartisan refusal to confront China over its unfair trade practices, intellectual property theft, and more. 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