The Biden administration inherits some legacies of President Obama. But it is not Obama’s third term — President Joe Biden, as former vice president of Barack Obama, signed 17 Executive Orders on his first day in office, which overturned Trump’s orders such as “The U.S. Exit of WHO” and reinstated Obama’s policies like DACA and the Paris Agreement. The immediate moves of the new White House appear…

The U.S.-China relations under the Biden Presidency and what are the workarounds — President Joe Biden’s friendship with China created the illusion that he would start healing the U.S.-China relations battered by President Trump. However, the cold reality of Washington politics has disappointed optimists on foreign relations. The incoming Presidency will not reset the worsening bilateral relations because Biden’s China policy is subject…

Though promising to restore and repair America’s relations with the rest of the world, three factors contributed to President Biden’s tough China policy. — Of course, climate change is one of the most important parts of President Biden’s priorities and he’ll need some help from China’s Xi Jinping. But Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken have reaffirmed many of the Trump administration’s most significant steps targeting China, including a determination that its crackdown…

Rivals and disagreements between Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders are beyond the COVID relief package. — Every new President has a hard time working with the Congressional opponents from the other party, as well as with a former adversary within the party. Now that Trump is gone, the electoral alignment between moderate and progressive Democrats’ goes to an end. Senator Bernie Sanders, who was President Joe…

On Day one, the Biden administration added three issues into its priorities. What the new White House priorities tell us, and why these changes? — Right after Election Day in 2020, President-elect Joe Biden began rolling out his transition plan, including a website “Build Back Better” listing four priorities for the start of his administration: COVID-19, economic recovery, racial equity and climate change. As President Biden sworn into office on January 20, 2020, the transition…

Why Biden could mitigate the foreign policy challenges set by Trump — During the last weeks of the Trump Presidency, the State Department announced significant policies on Yemen, Cuba, Taiwan and Iran that sought to raise the stakes for Biden’s initial foreign policy plans. “Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has made near-daily announcements of major foreign policy actions, many of which appear…

How attack ads of Trump’s campaign contributed to political violence — The words and rhetoric of the incumbent President Donald Trump have incited violence throughout his campaigns and presidential term. The 2020 presidential election witnessed an unusual pattern of attack ads. Disproportionate volume A typical campaign ad can be categorized into one of the three kinds: promotional, contrast and attack.

How the Trump supporters, the American public, and the international audience are misguided by President Trump — Referring news organizations as “enemy of the people,” President Trump thinks that he can govern by tweet. Today, Twitter locked his account for repeatedly violating its rules in posts about the Capitol Hill breach. …

What to concern in a vice presidential search? — In early March 2020, Democratic observers had started to speculate who will be Biden’s vice presidential (VP) choice, as Biden claimed to choose a woman as a running mate if he becomes the Democratic presidential nomination. Two criteria are believed to dominate the decision-making: electability and balancing. …