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to the shared global challenges that so many are facing including food security, on health, energy and clime, inclusive economic growth challenges.</li><li>Fourth, the United States has used the power of American diplomacy to advance peace and prevent and mitigate conflict.</li></ul><p id="4662"><b>Launching new bureaus and expanding diplomatic presence</b></p><p id="9099">The Secretary of State shares how the United States has worked with allies and partners in 2022 to confront challenges.</p><ul><li>Launched a new bureau for Cyberspace and digital policy</li><li>Notifies the Congress about the intent to create a new bureau on global health security and diplomacy.</li><li>Makes China House to lead the development and coordination of the US policy toward the China.</li><li>Expanded the diplomatic presence in the Indo-Pacific and brought on the biggest cohort of Foreign and Civil Service Officers in over a decade.</li></ul><h2 id="901f">A stronger NATO</h2><ul><li>NATO has never been stronger or more united.</li><li>Alliance adopted a new strategic concept and added more forces and resources to the NATO collective defense.</li><li>Doubled the number of battlegroups along the NATO’s eastern flank.</li><li>Increased deployments in the Baltic.</li><li>On the cusp of adding Finland and Sweden as new members of the NATO alliance.</li><li>For the first time, NATO’s strategic concept committed to address China’s systematic challenges to transatlantic security.</li><li>The US deepened the NATO’s coordination with Australia, Japan, the Republic of Korea, New Zealand and other Pacific allies.</li></ul><h2 id="64e0">China and the Indo-Pacific</h2><figure id="85ce"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/0*L6oZIoLt2IiG_dac"><figcaption>Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/@jmanalog?utm_source=medium&utm_medium=referral">Jay</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com?utm_source=medium&utm_medium=referral">Unsplash</a></figcaption></figure><ul><li>China is the only competitor for the United States with both the intent to reshape the international order and, increasingly, the economic, diplomatic, military and the technological power to advance that objective. In comparison, Russia poses an immediate threat to the free and open international system.</li><li>Back in May of 2022, the United States has set out the following strategy to meet the challenges posed by China:</li></ul><p id="2ed8">a. invest in the foundations of our strength at home</p><p id="fba6">b. align with our partners and allies.</p><p id="7af4">c. compete with China so that we can defend

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our interests and realize our vision for the future.</p><p id="ab1f">d. the US diplomacy has played a key role in carrying out that strategy.</p><ul><li>The United States sets out an affirmative approach for a free and open <i>Indo-Pacific </i>that draws on the views of many of the US partners inside and outside the region, and that has in turn informed their own strategies.</li><li>Together with the EU, the United States strengthened the complementary toolkits on key challenges posed by China, from economic coercion to human rights.</li><li>The United States has deepened its cooperation on investment screening and export controls of sensitive and emerging technologies.</li><li>The US is committed to preserve peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait.</li><li>The United States worked carefully to prevent competition from veering into conflict.</li><li>The United States continues to manage this relationship responsibly. The US will continue to pursue cooperation on issues that demand the United States and China work together.</li></ul><h2 id="68ee">Human Rights: Biden Administration’s Center of Foreign Policy</h2><p id="46c5">Answering a question regarding <i>human rights</i>, the Secretary of State confirms that the Biden Administration is putting it back at the center of the US foreign policy. ‘<i>We have done that in shining a spotlight on human rights abuses’, </i>Secretary Blinken says.</p><p id="f701">‘<i>It’s at the heart of our foreign policy; it’s not the totality of our foreign policy’, </i>the Secretary of States adds further.</p><p id="650d">It’s one of the critical elements that the United States looks at and try to advance, but in every instance the country has to balance a multiplicity of interests.</p><ul><li>There are are a lot of places where the United States has seen human rights abuses committed in the context of larger conflicts.</li><li>The United States is engaged across the international community: the UN, International Criminal Court etc.</li><li>There is no one-size-fits all approach. The United States is looking at each case, each instance and each place. The US is trying to make judgments each time about how the country can actually be most effective in bringing these abuses to an end.</li></ul><figure id="8789"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/0*1rDGG541RmJQ_6Zt"><figcaption>Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/@jupp?utm_source=medium&utm_medium=referral">Jonathan Kemper</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com?utm_source=medium&utm_medium=referral">Unsplash</a></figcaption></figure></article></body>

Annual Foreign Policy Briefing of the US Secretary of State: 2022

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‘Secretary Antony J. Blinken at a Press Availability’, The U.S. Department of State, December 22, 2022.

America is leading again around the world

The Secretary of States says that, ‘We showed that the United States is ready and able to lead on the fundamental challenges of our time. And countries around the world demonstrated why they want to be our partners in building a world that’s more free, more open, more secure, and more prosperous.’

The US has reinvigorated engagement with the NATO, EU, the UN, the G7, ASEAN, and the OECD.

The United States elevated and strengthened the Quad.

The US created the AUKUS, the U.S-EU Trade and Technology Council.

The Logic behind such engagement and groupings

The US is in a fundamentally stronger position to address the issues that actually affect the lives of the American people when the US do so alongside the many countries that share the US fundamental interests and values.
This is a smart and important investment.
The alliances and partnerships proved the vital difference in addressing threats and risks posed by:

a. strategic competitors;

b. combating global challenges like the Climate crisis and the pandemic;

c. seizing opportunities to improve Americans’ lives in tangible ways.

Four most consequential areas the U.S. diplomacy delivered in 2022

Firstly, the United States rallied the world to ensure that Russia’s war on Ukraine is a strategic failure. The United States will be with Ukraine for as long as it takes. President Biden delivered to message to Ukraine’s President when the POTUS hosted him at the White House.
Secondly, the US has accelerated strategic convergence with its allies and partners on the People’s Republic of China.
Third, the United States has mobilized broad based coalitions to deliver solutions to the shared global challenges that so many are facing including food security, on health, energy and clime, inclusive economic growth challenges.
Fourth, the United States has used the power of American diplomacy to advance peace and prevent and mitigate conflict.

Launching new bureaus and expanding diplomatic presence

The Secretary of State shares how the United States has worked with allies and partners in 2022 to confront challenges.

Launched a new bureau for Cyberspace and digital policy
Notifies the Congress about the intent to create a new bureau on global health security and diplomacy.
Makes China House to lead the development and coordination of the US policy toward the China.
Expanded the diplomatic presence in the Indo-Pacific and brought on the biggest cohort of Foreign and Civil Service Officers in over a decade.

A stronger NATO

NATO has never been stronger or more united.
Alliance adopted a new strategic concept and added more forces and resources to the NATO collective defense.
Doubled the number of battlegroups along the NATO’s eastern flank.
Increased deployments in the Baltic.
On the cusp of adding Finland and Sweden as new members of the NATO alliance.
For the first time, NATO’s strategic concept committed to address China’s systematic challenges to transatlantic security.
The US deepened the NATO’s coordination with Australia, Japan, the Republic of Korea, New Zealand and other Pacific allies.

China and the Indo-Pacific

China is the only competitor for the United States with both the intent to reshape the international order and, increasingly, the economic, diplomatic, military and the technological power to advance that objective. In comparison, Russia poses an immediate threat to the free and open international system.
Back in May of 2022, the United States has set out the following strategy to meet the challenges posed by China:

a. invest in the foundations of our strength at home

b. align with our partners and allies.

c. compete with China so that we can defend our interests and realize our vision for the future.

d. the US diplomacy has played a key role in carrying out that strategy.

The United States sets out an affirmative approach for a free and open Indo-Pacific that draws on the views of many of the US partners inside and outside the region, and that has in turn informed their own strategies.
Together with the EU, the United States strengthened the complementary toolkits on key challenges posed by China, from economic coercion to human rights.
The United States has deepened its cooperation on investment screening and export controls of sensitive and emerging technologies.
The US is committed to preserve peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait.
The United States worked carefully to prevent competition from veering into conflict.
The United States continues to manage this relationship responsibly. The US will continue to pursue cooperation on issues that demand the United States and China work together.

Human Rights: Biden Administration’s Center of Foreign Policy

Answering a question regarding human rights, the Secretary of State confirms that the Biden Administration is putting it back at the center of the US foreign policy. ‘We have done that in shining a spotlight on human rights abuses’, Secretary Blinken says.

‘It’s at the heart of our foreign policy; it’s not the totality of our foreign policy’, the Secretary of States adds further.

It’s one of the critical elements that the United States looks at and try to advance, but in every instance the country has to balance a multiplicity of interests.

There are are a lot of places where the United States has seen human rights abuses committed in the context of larger conflicts.
The United States is engaged across the international community: the UN, International Criminal Court etc.
There is no one-size-fits all approach. The United States is looking at each case, each instance and each place. The US is trying to make judgments each time about how the country can actually be most effective in bringing these abuses to an end.