[Charles A. Kupchan] Biden’s foreign policy needs a course correction


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As US President Joe Biden contemplates course corrections after his first months in office, one change seems especially worthy of consideration: A shift to a more pragmatic, less ideological foreign policy. So far, Biden has centered his statecraft on the clash between democracy and autocracy. In his address to Congress late last month, he identified the country’s adversaries as “the autocrats of the world,” vowing that they “will not win the future. We will. America will.” Envisaging a 21st-century “battle between the utility of democracies … and autocracies,” Biden has called for a global “Summit for Democracy” to mobilize like-minded...