Biden's trade policies: Politics over business
He has made it clear that when it comes to his economic policies, he intends to put American workers first even if that clashes with other policy priorities, like trade.
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US President Joe Biden and his foreign policy aides have spent the past year declaring that the United States was back on the world stage. That the new president would reverse the supposedly isolationist and protectionist policies of his predecessor in office, and would pursue a strategy based on traditional US internationalist principles.
Moreover, if one were to sketch the outline of a Biden Doctrine on foreign policy it would be based on the assumption that the most effective way to respond to the geo-strategic and geo-economic challenges from China that are confronting the United States would be through multilateral action, working together with military allies and trade partners, as opposed to the unilateral approach embraced by former president Donald Trump.
That has made a lot of sense in theory, but fails to explain what has happened in the real policy arena, highlighting the following paradox: As the Biden administration talks the multilateralist talk, like its predecessor it seems to walk in a unilateralist direction.
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