President Joe Biden, 78, could not have worse start to his foreign policy, alienating both Russian and China, turning back the clock to the Cold War. President Donald Trump, accused by Democrats and the press of cozying up to dictators, established strong ties with China, the Russian Federation and North Korea. North Korea’s 36-year-old dictator Kim Jong-up made unprecedented efforts to improve ties with Trump after a feverish nuclear program during the eight years of former President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden. Biden considers himself a foreign policy expert yet has proceeded to drive China and North Korea into a close alliance. Trump had China on the U.S. side trying to persuade Kim that it was in his best interest to keep communication channels of reducing or eliminating his nuclear arsenal on the Korean Peninsula.
Not long after Biden took office, he announced that his foreign policy would be based on human rights, immediately criticizing Russia, China, North Korea and Iran, though Biden ignored human rights abuses in Iran to get back into the Obama-era Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action AKA the Iranian Nuke Deal, that Trump cancelled May 8, 2018. Biden’s first blunder was to hold a get-to-know-you summit March 18 with China in Anchorage, Alaska. Led by 58-year-old Secretary of State Tony Blinken and 44-hear-old National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, Biden was convinced he could take the big guns out and bully China. When Blinken and Sullivan slammed China for alleged genocide against Muslim Uyghurs in Xingjiang province in Western China, the Chinese delegation led by senior diplomat Yang Jiechi had enough. Jiechi pushed back against U.S. accusations of human rights abuses.
Jiechi told Blinken and Sullivan that no nation that admits to “systemic racism” should lecture other nations about human rights. Biden had admitted during the 2020 campaign and the early days of his presidency that the U.S. was a “systemically racist” nation, placating the new militant black community driven by Black Lives Matter that helped get him elected. Yet Blinken and Sullivan insulted Beijing in the most blatant way accusing China of genocide against Muslim Uyghurs, a brutal crackdown against pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong and interference in Taiwan. But only two days before the Anchorage summit, Biden called Russian President Vladimir Putin a “soulless killer,” insulting maybe the most powerful leader on the planet. Biden continued the hostile Obama policy that ousted 35 Russian diplomats Dec. 31, 2016 for alleged election interference.
All of Biden’s actions led Chinese President Xi Jinping to extend a cooperation agreement with North Korea another five years, meaning that China will defend North Korean interests including their nuclear program. Xi and Kim pledged to push back against foreign enemies, principally the U.S., promising a “new stage” of cooperation. What that means practically for Biden is that North Korean won’t consider any type of arms control cooperation with the U.S. or European Union. North Korean fought a bloody war from 1950 to 1953 with South Korea, two countries divided on the 38th parallel in 1948, with Russia administering the North and the U.S. in the South. “Despite the unprecendently complicated international situation in recent years the comradely trust and militant friendship between the DPRK and China gets stronger by the day,” Kim said in a message to China.
Trump had his hostile go-around with Kim until the mercurial leader finally gave into Trump’s toughness, agreeing to start a new era of diplomacy. Trump was the first U.S. president to visit North Korea, a remarkable feat in U.S. diplomacy. But like everything Trump did in foreign and domestic policy, it was dismissed by the Democrat-friendly press, only looking to get him out of office. Trump actually had Xi putting pressure on Kim to cooperate on his nuclear program and pledge to de-nuclearize the Korean Peninsula. Biden has alienated Beijing to the point that Xi recently warned the West to not mess with China or get their head bashed in. Historians forget that the Korean War ended in an armistice, not a peace treaty July 27, 1953 because China and Russia gave Kim Il-Sung, the founder of North Korea, all the military back up he needed to prevail in the three-year conflict.
Biden has a lot of fixing to do with U.S. enemies, especially Russia, China and North Korea, since alienating all three countries in his first six months in office. Pledging that the five-year extension on the cooperation treaty will keep the peace in Asia “now that the hostile forces become more desperate in their challenge and obstructive moves,” Kim said. China now gives North Korea the green light to push the pedal-to-the-metal when it comes to their nuclear program. China now sees North Korea as a partner in containing U.S. aggression in the Pacific Rim area. Xi pledged to Kim to strengthen ties between the two countries “by steadily leading the relations of friendship and cooperation between the two countries to a new stage,” KCNA reported. Whatever rapport Trump built over for four years, it all vanished quickly under Biden, reverting to the old Cold War approach to Russia, China and North Korea.
