On the domestic front, Biden is all ambition. Why not on foreign policy?

Joe Biden has begun his presidency with great success. He has moved to address the central issue facing the country — the pandemic — and proposed big, bold policies to help the country recover. He seems to have learned a key lesson from the Obama years: that Democrats do well when they act with imagination and courage, rather than waiting around and watering down proposals in the vain hope of Republican support. But while the Biden administration has adopted a confident, assertive stance on domestic policy, on foreign policy it has taken a strikingly different approach — hesitant and fixated on preemptively mollifying its Republican critics.

Now, let me be clear. Biden’s foreign policy team is highly intelligent and capable. And these are early days. But I want to highlight some worrying signs.

To read the full article, please click here.