Commentary: Why Joe Biden is the heir to Donald Trump

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The current United States president’s administration has quietly built upon many Trump-era policies, says the Financial Times’ Gideon Rachman.

But it is also true that, as president, Trump was responsible for historic shifts inthat Joe Biden has built upon. Those shifts are likely to endure - even if Trump is sent to prison.

Bill Clinton pushed through the North American Free Trade Agreement . George W Bush welcomed China into the World Trade Organization . The Obama administration worked towards a US-China bilateral investment treaty and agreed the Trans-Pacific Partnership , a new trade deal.Snap Insight: Donald Trump indicted over attempt to overturn US election, but America is also on trialTrump, however, repudiated the pro-globalisation consensus of the previous 40 years.

This administration has also embraced the concept of great-power rivalry with China. Biden’s own National Security strategy describes China as the “most consequential” geopolitical challenge for America.”, the president’s ambitious and interventionist economic policies, are driven by a Trump-like desire to reindustrialise America and rebuild the middle class.

 

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