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Foreign policy under the Biden administration
Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s first full day on the job was Wednesday.
By Madeleine Brand • • 51m ListenSecretary of State Antony Blinken’s first full day on the job was Wednesday. He must restaff the department as he confronts serious problems: Iran untethered from the nuclear agreement, an emboldened Russia, a strengthened China, a pandemic and climate change creating instability everywhere, and ongoing wars in Afghanistan, Syria and Yemen.
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5 storiesAmerica has a new foreign policy. What are plans for Iran, Israel and beyond?
Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s first full day on the job was Wednesday. He said at the State Department, “I know the State Department that I'm walking into today is not the same one that I left four years ago. A lot has changed.
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