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What Is Biden’s ‘Foreign Policy for the Middle Class’?
The U.S. can shape a role in the world that helps working families, but some longer-term goals need to be more abstract.
Antony Blinken, working-class hero.
Photographer: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA/Bloomberg
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Every president needs a grand strategy — a set of principles and priorities that guides a country’s statecraft in a chaotic world. For superpowers, which must integrate actions on a global scale while applying limited resources to seemingly limitless problems, the direction and discipline a grand strategy provides are essential.
The Joe Biden administration hasn’t wasted time staking out its proposed grand strategy: “Foreign policy for the middle class.”