WASHINGTON, DC – Joe Biden ran for president in part on his foreign policy credentials. In his years in the Senate he served as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; as Barack Obama’s vice-president he was known as the point person on Ukraine and was a staunch advocate for support for the country.
By comparison, Kamala Harris’s previous portfolio was largely focused on domestic politics. As Biden’s Vice-President she has been handed some foreign policy issues, but the results so far have been mixed. A visit to Paris to smooth things over after the surprise announcement of a military pact in the Indo-Pacific that excluded France seemed to go well. But her handling of immigration and the US’s southern border has, at least so far, been most memorably characterised by her telling would-be migrants, “Do not come”, which was neither a foreign policy solution nor especially well received at any point on the political spectrum.
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