Testing Joe Biden: What Challenges Will Take the Measure of the Next President

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Chris Cotnoir

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🗓️ 16 December 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

No president has ever entered the job with more foreign policy experience than Joe Biden, who has been playing a role at the highest levels of U.S. international affairs since 1972. Nonetheless, the world continues to rapidly change and the new president will be quickly presented with challenges none of his predecessors have faced. We know what some of those are--from COVID to the challenge of succeeding a president who refuses to exit the office gracefully. But the world certainly has others in store. We discuss how Biden and his team will respond to them with someone in a unique position to know, long-time Biden advisor and friend Tom Donilon, who served as national security advisor to President Obama. Ed Luce of the Financial Times and host David Rothkopf pose the questions on this must listen special edition of DSR. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/deepstateradio. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:47.0	Hello and welcome to a special episode of the podcast. I'm your host David Rothkoff joined by one of our regulars Ed Loose of the Financial Times and we're here to have a conversation
0:58.0	with former US National Security Advisor Tom Donlan. This is part of the series of conversations. We've been having the
1:04.8	past couple of weeks. Looking ahead to the Biden administration and some of the challenges it will face.
1:10.9	Welcome, Tom, how are you? I'm doing great, David. Thank you. It's nice to be here with you and Ed. Thanks for the invitation.
1:17.0	No, glad to have you here. I will just kick right off and Ed, why don't you pose any question you like to Tom?
1:24.3	Thanks David and great great to see you Tom. There's already a sort of short that everybody has for what the first sort of few weeks of the Biden administration will look like in terms of foreign policy and we're joining Paris, we're joining WHO, reaching out to allies, etc.
1:46.7	What in your view is the most surprising thing that the Biden administration will do in terms of
1:55.6	signaling that there's a new sheriff in town or all of that's when understood what's the
1:59.5	most surprising thing that he could do?
2:02.8	I think well first of all thanks for the question it'll be a very different look
2:06.9	and approach by the United States with with President Biden.
2:10.9	You know President Trump is engaged in a sharp departure, I think it's fair to say, from American
2:16.3	foreign policy since World War II, a sharply different approach to leadership, a sharply
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