There’s no shortage of breaking news headlines on the foreign policy front
right now. Catch up on all the top foreign policy moves over the last month
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John,

 

It’s been a busy month on the foreign policy front. With President Biden’s
first 100 days officially in the books, new challenges are emerging for his
administration in China, the Middle East, Russia, and more. 


Catch up on all the top foreign policy headlines from the last month below and
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[READ] MIKE LEADS EFFORT TO BOLSTER CYBERSECURITY THROUGH DIPLOMACY
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The bottom line: “The so-called Cyber Diplomacy Act would require the State
Department to develop a strategy for promoting norms in cyberspace around what
behavior is acceptable in cyberspace. The proposal would also create an
ambassador role for cyber diplomacy, as well as a centralized Bureau of
International Cyberspace Policy to push democratic norms in cyberspace and
advise the Secretary of State on cyber issues. “In an increasingly connected
world, we must have the proper structures in place to promote our values and
interests in cyberspace,” Wisconsin Republican Rep. Mike Gallagher, who co-led
the bill’s introduction, said in a statement. ––CyberScoop
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[READ] AMERICAN AND TAIWANESE DIPLOMATS MEET, ANGERING CHINA
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The bottom line: “An unprecedented public meeting between officials from U.S.
and Taiwan has infuriated China but portends the Biden administration's new
plans for handling relations with the strategically consequential country
Beijing considers a renegade province. Chinese state media on Monday
highlighted outrage from its government about a lunch meeting on Friday between
the top U.S. and Taiwanese diplomats based in France. "There is only one
China," China's Embassy in France said in a statement released Sunday,
according to a translation.”  –– U.S. News & World Report

 

[READ] FOREIGN POLICY ON BACKBURNER IN BIDEN’S FIRST ADDRESS TO CONGRESS
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The bottom line: “President Joe Biden’s recent address to Congress focused
rather heavily on domestic matters, particularly his $2.3 trillion
“infrastructure” package. We didn’t hear much about foreign affairs. That’s
because he’s put them on the back burner to press forward with his
“transformative,” and unprecedentedly expensive, domestic agenda.” –– James Jay
Carafano, Ph.D., Vice President of the Davis Institute for National Security
and Foreign Policy at The Heritage Foundation
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[READ] BIDEN TO WITHDRAW ALL U.S. FORCES FROM AFGHANISTAN BY 9/11
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The bottom line: “After consulting closely with our allies and partners, with
our military leaders and intelligence personnel, with our diplomats and our
development experts, with the Congress and the vice president, as well as with
[Afghan President Ashraf Ghani] and many others around the world, I concluded
that it's time to end America's longest war. It's time for American troops to
come home," the president said. “The United States met its objective 10 years
ago with the assassination of Taliban leader Osama bin Laden,” he said, adding
since then, "Our reasons for staying have become increasingly unclear.” –– U.S.
Department of Defense

 

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[READ] BIDEN ADMIN. WEIGHS ROLLING BACK SANCTIONS ON IRAN IN MIDST OF NUCLEAR
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The bottom line: “The Biden administration is considering a near wholesale
rollback of some of the most stringent Trump-era sanctions imposed on Iran in a
bid to get the Islamic Republic to return to compliance with a landmark 2015
nuclear accord, according to current and former U.S. officials and others
familiar with the matter. As indirect talks continue this week in Vienna to
explore the possibility of reviving the nuclear deal, American officials have
become increasingly expansive about what they might be prepared to offer Iran,
which has been driving a hard line on sanctions relief, demanding that all U.S.
penalties be removed.” –– NBC News
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[READ] SECRETARY BLINKEN VISITS UKRAINE IN WAKE OF RUSSIAN TROOP BUILDUP
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The bottom line: “Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Kyiv on May
5-6 to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to "reaffirm unwavering
U.S. support for Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity in the face of
Russia’s ongoing aggression," the State Department announced Friday. Blinken
will be the most senior-ranking U.S. official to visit Ukraine during the Biden
administration. The trip comes in the aftermath of massive Russia military
exercises near the Ukrainian border, and could precede a summit this summer
between President Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin. –– AXIOS

 

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