… As the president wrote in the 2021 Interim National Security Strategic Guidance, “America is back. Diplomacy is back. Alliances are back.” Do the American people believe that America is back? And do they support the policies laid out in the Biden administration’s Foreign Policy for the Middle Class? The results of the 2021 Chicago Council Survey show that the US public still believes the United States is the most influential country in the world but feels China nipping at its heels. Public support has been remarkably stable in supporting many of the traditional foreign policy elements included in the Biden doctrine—international engagement, alliances, and US global leadership. CONTINUED — pdf
Dina Smeltz, Ivo Daalder, Karl Friedhoff, Craig Kafura & Emily Sullivan, Chicago Council on Global Affairs
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