America suffered from democracy and corona failure
Can’global leadership’ be restored?
“The United States is back” is the declaration of the next US administration by Joe Biden. President-elect Biden is announcing an economic stimulus budget to overcome Corona 19 damage at the Queen Theater in Wilmington, Delaware on the 14th. Wilmington = AP Newsis
America is back. It is the biggest event this year to shake the international order. “I’m ready to lead the world again.” President Joe Biden’s will to take office on the 20th (local time) is firm. However, the reality is difficult. A new coronavirus infection (Corona 19) scratched the country that was torn in two. Not long ago, the riots in the far-right parliament revealed a confusion in democracy. Home country integration and healing come first. It’s an opportunity for rival China. If left alone, the North Korean nuclear program will grow. Will America be able to return? ‘Biden’s Time’ is not long. Using his initials as a keyword, I pointed out the tasks of the new administration.
Bipolar system
President Donald Trump tried to push the rising China down. It was based on anti-Chinese sentiment in the country. It was defined as an enemy, and a system confrontation composition was created. At one time, China lowered its stance. It seemed that he regretted the premature movement (堀起, raising the body). The trigger for the reversal was Corona 19. While the US wandered, China rose again.
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party. The success of quarantine is a customized material for promoting system superiority. The United States is in good condition. The world has witnessed the messy hall of people. China, which has taken the weakness of the United States, will be more confident. In order to recapture leadership, we must stand above the competition with China for supremacy.
The next US administration, Joe Biden, is expected to create a China-to-multilateral structure rather than one-on-one between the United States and China to hold China in check. In December 2013, at the People’s Congress in Beijing, China, then Vice President Biden (left) meets Chinese President Xi Jinping and shakes hands. Beijing = AP Yonhap News
Internationalism Internationalism
Biden’s formula for victory is the restoration of an alliance that shared democratic values. Rather than wage a one-on-one duel, such as imposing tariffs, they will join forces with allies with the same cause to surround the authoritarian dictatorship. Trump’s isolationism was egoism. If you only pursue profit, you cannot be an example if you are proud of your strength. Even if you lose money, you must adhere to the principle.
‘Biden America’ will lead the international community and cooperate with friends. The announcement of the re-joining of the Paris Climate Change Convention on the first day of inauguration is a declaration of return to the international community. However, as in the past, it is difficult to expect the US to trade profits and leadership at all. Last month, the National Assembly Legislative Investigation Office said that it was “practical internationalism,” and predicted that “a screening intervention will be promoted considering the existence of profits or not.
Democracy in crisis Democracy in crisis
It is a’Summit for Democracy’, ’10 Democratic Countries’ (D10), and democracy is an American foreign brand that does not fall out of the Biden administration’s initiative, but the current situation in the United States is not without a corner. The 74.2 million votes won by presidential loser Trump are more than any other winner has so far. His’Trumpism’ is an extreme selection of democracy (選民主義).
In fact, division is not entirely the responsibility of President Trump. Four years before he was elected, the United States was already a suitable soil for populism (populism). I don’t know how exclusive it was. Whites complained that jobs were reduced due to globalization, and that even immigrants took them. Whatever the democracy, the chosen people did not recognize Biden as representative.
An iron fence is erected around the US Capitol in Washington on the 15th. On the 20th, the inauguration ceremony of the next US President Joe Biden will be held at the Capitol, which has been invaded for the first time in American history. Washington AP=Yonhap News
Epidemic control Infectious disease epidemic control
The direction the Corona 19 pandemic is pointing is more division than cooperation. Globalization will stop and borders will close. In November of last year, The Economist of the UK’s Current Affairs Week said that each country will “expand the scope of the’strategic industry’ that the government has to protect, and make the state’s support for the strategic industry a trend.” It is clear,” he analyzed.
However, a more urgent issue is the’vaccine gap’. “Unless the vaccine is distributed fairly, an end to the pandemic is impossible,” a World Health Organization warning. The United States will return to WHO and join COVAX, a global vaccine supplier. As China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi suggested, there is a possibility that Corona 19 could create the cause of cooperation between the US and China, which is competing.
Nuclear weapons
Many experts observe that the North Korean nuclear issue will be placed behind the Biden government’s priorities. In a recent report, the National Security Strategy Institute predicted, “Considering the heightened level of North Korean nuclear threat, it is unlikely that the Obama administration’s’strategic patience’ will be selected, but it is likely to result in a delay due to urgency and diplomacy.” did.
However, the US Think Tank Foreign Relations Association (CFR) has cited North Korea’s nuclear development as the largest candidate for an outbreak this year. Among the eight issues classified as 1st grade, the only North Korean nuclear issue was evaluated as’high’ in both the’impact to the United States’ and’probability of occurrence’ items. The strategy of unilateral sanctions aimed at the collapse of North Korea is idle. Iran, which is dominated by hard-liners, is unlikely to wait long.
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