Foreign policy experts are discussing President Joe Biden's Asia policy a year into its implementation.
According to an op-ed originally published in the Diplomat, the Biden administration has taken various initiatives, which include rejoining the Paris Climate Accord and the World Health Organization, hosting Japanese and Korean leaders, and dispatching cabinet secretaries.
"Biden and his foreign policy team brought to bear considerable diplomatic experience and a carefully reasoned approach to international affairs, prioritizing domestic renewal and the rebuilding of U.S. partnerships and international influence," according to the analysis.
To some extent, this approach made a virtue of necessity, given the urgency of multiple domestic issues, beginning with the COVID-19 pandemic, the article stated.
However, Biden, “who learned a thing or two about dealing with communists during the Cold War,” realized that Chinese leadership was convinced the U.S. was in decline, according to the analysis.
In March, U.S. leaders held a virtual summit with the leaders of Japan, India, and Australia to counter actions by China, the op-ed stated.
The piece also addressed U.S. policy towards North Korea and gives the Biden administration credit for using diplomacy to achieve objectives.
"It has opened the door to diplomacy but avoided the trap of trying to entice the North with unilateral concessions and has quietly bolstered defense and deterrence without the risky bluster of “fire and fury," according to the analysis.