Former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley urged President-elect Joe Biden not to jettison all of President Trump’s foreign policies and called on him to stand up against China and strong men in Latin America and to build on the successes of the Middle East government.
Biden will certainly feel strong partisan pressure to reject most, if not all, of Trump’s foreign policy. That would be a mistake, ”Haley, who served from 2017 to 2019, wrote in an op-ed in the Washington Post on Wednesday.
“Wiping away the achievements and strategies of the past four years would jeopardize US security and interests,” said Haley.
She characterized as “foolish” Biden’s plan to immediately rejoin the Paris climate accord, saying it will “leave the US at the mercy of other nations, such as China, who are trying to strengthen themselves at the expense of the US”.
She went on to outline three areas of Trump’s foreign policy that Biden should uphold.
Haley called communist China “the most serious global threat” to the US and said Beijing wants to “catch up” with the US economically and militarily.
This truth explains why Trump pursued military build-up, punished Chinese companies for stealing US trade secrets, sanctioned Chinese leaders and companies for their horrific human rights violations, and strengthened coordination with US allies and partners to hold China to account. Biden would jeopardize US interests if he changed course, ”she said.
“The right course is to further restrict Chinese access to our businesses, telecommunications and universities, as the United States did with the Soviet Union, while building additional military, economic and diplomatic strength at the same time,” she said, noting. Beijing’s aggressive behavior towards Taiwan and Hong Kong.
“If Biden fails to push back, there will be no end to Chinese communist aggression in Asia and beyond,” she said.
Haley, a former South Carolina governor, advised Biden to go ahead with Trump’s push to thwart communism in Cuba and socialism in Venezuela.
She noted that it “would irritate some leftist members of his party, but their views did not lead to successful policies under the Obama administration. It would be no different now. In Latin America, as elsewhere, Biden would be fine. to stand up against American enemies and stand up for American values. “
At the same time, the former vice president must work on Trump’s successes in the Middle East and continue to encourage the forging of relations between Israel and its Arab neighbors.
“Trump refused to accept the weary notion that the Palestinian cause was the key to wider regional peace. And he exerted strong pressure on Iran’s murderous regime, which hates the Arab world almost as much as Israel and our country,” she wrote.
“Trump’s actions were consistent with US, Israeli and Arab policies, resulting in peace,” she said. Since the United Arab Emirates recognized Israel at the signing of the Abraham Accords in September, Morocco, Bahrain and Sudan have joined.
Trump also withdrew the US from the Obama-era nuclear plan with Iran, signed by a number of world powers, and reintroduced crippling economic sanctions against the Islamic Republic.
Biden has indicated that he would return the US to the nuclear deal.