Joe Biden immediately targets Russia and China by sending the first hard signals to the two rival superpowers
.
The first is
against Moscow's repression
of demonstrations in favor of the opponent Alexiei Navalny.
The second against Chinese "intimidation" in Taiwan, on the day when Beijing bombers flew over the airspace of the island that the Dragon would like to bring back under its wings, after the squeeze on Hong Kong.
In the meantime, he continues his first phone calls to the allied leaders: after those of the two neighboring countries (Canada and Mexico) and Great Britain, with whom he wants to strengthen the "special relationship", the Europeans with the telephone appointment with the French President Emmanuel Macron announced by the Elysée.
The new American president wants to overturn Trump's complacent line towards the 'Tsar' Vladimir Putin.
And if on the one hand it is ready to extend the Start treaty for the control of nuclear arsenals for another five years, on the other it is preparing for new sanctions on Russian interference in elections, cyber attacks, Navalny's poisoning and violation of human rights.
Ignoring the Kremlin's accusations against the US embassy that it interfered in internal affairs for publishing the areas of the protest (to be avoided, ed), the State Department "strongly condemned the use of brutal methods against protesters and journalists in this weekend in several cities of Russia ", asking Moscow to release" unconditionally "Navalni and" all persons detained for exercising their universal rights ".
New Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, who is expected to be confirmed shortly, shares Trump's hard line against China, albeit with different methods and involving allies.
Its state department and national security council have already drawn other lines of foreign policy: strengthening and expanding the Abrahamic agreements between Israel and the Arab countries, a "stronger and more lasting" agreement with Iran on nuclear power, a "new strategy" against the North Korean threat, the revision of the peace agreement signed by Trump with the Taliban in Afghanistan, the relaunch of NATO and of relations with European allies.
But without giving up some of Trump's 'America first' trade policies, such as the 'Buy America' that Biden will strengthen on Monday, with other executive orders.