US should abandon Cold War strategies: National Herald

It is time for the US to take bold action and re-orient its outdated views on foreign policy, according to an opinion piece published on the National Herald of India website on May 7.

There have been many "bold" changes in US foreign policy in the past 100 days, since the start of US President Joe Biden's administration. The changes mainly are concerned with four major nations - China, Vietnam, Cuba and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, however, the strategies the US is taking continues those from the Cold War, wrote the article.

In a speech at the State Department in February, Biden declared, "The message I want the world to hear today: America is back. America is back… As I said in my inaugural address, we will repair our alliances and engage with the world once again, not to meet yesterday's challenges, but today's and tomorrow's."

The article labeled the phrase "tomorrow's challenges" as old-fashioned, and pointed out that Biden's "strenthen the alliance" pledges at a recent US-Japan summit were the same old.

However, the US should readjust its outdated foreign policy, wrote the article, suggesting that the US can expand positive results previously achieved, return to abandoned or neglected agreements, or start work towards new understandings.