Trump vs Biden Policies 2020: Where Do They Stand on Key Issues?

But he reversed that position early in his 2020 campaign after coming under pressure from women's groups and Democratic activists.

Biden said he wasn't bowing to pressure but instead argued that Republican legislatures around the country had restricted abortion access to the point that the Hyde Amendment had become an untenable barrier for poor or working-class women to access a constitutional right.

Trump vs Biden Policies 2020: Trade

President Donald Trump views the signing of two major trade deals — an updated pact with Mexico and Canada and Phase 1 of a China agreement — as signature achievements of his presidency.

US and China signed Phase 1 in January, less than two months before the pandemic put an enormous strain on US-China relations.

Trump says Phase 1 led to China buying roughly $200 billion over two years in US agricultural products, energy and other American products.

In return, the US canceled planned US tariffs on Chinese-made smartphones, toys and laptop computers.

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The US also cut in half, to 7.5 percent, the tariff rate levied on $120 billion in other China imports.

Phase 2 of the deal is expected to focus on some tougher issues between the countries, including Trump’s wish to get China to stop subsidizing its state-owned enterprises.

But for Trump, who has come to frequently refer to the coronavirus as the “China virus”, it remains to be seen whether he will be able to effectively reengage Beijing on trade.

Trump recently said he’s currently “not interested” in talking to China.

Biden has joined a growing bipartisan embrace of “fair trade” abroad — a twist on decades of “free trade” talk as Republican and Democratic administrations alike expanded international trade.

Joe Biden wants to juice US manufacturing by directing $400 billion of federal government purchases to domestic firms (part of that for buying pandemic supplies) over a four-year term.

He wants $300 billion in new support for US technology firms’ research and development. Biden says the new domestic spending must come before he enters into any new international trade deals.

He pledges tough negotiations with China, the world’s other economic superpower, on trade and intellectual property matters.

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China, like the US, is not yet a member of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the multilateral trade agreement that Biden advocated for when he was vice president.

Trump vs Biden Policies 2020: Foreign Policy

During his first term, Trump built his foreign policy around the mantra of “America First”.

But in the final lap before Election Day, Trump has been offering himself as an international peacemaker for nudging the Gulf monarchies of Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates to sign agreements with Israel opening business and diplomatic relations.

Trump says other Arab nations are on the cusp of opening formal relations with Israel.

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He also counts as major achievements building more than 200 miles (320 kilometers) of his promised wall along the US-Mexico border, cajoling more NATO members to fulfill their pledge to spend 2 percent of their gross domestic product on defense spending and reducing the US military footprint in Afghanistan and other hot spots.

He also announced his intended withdrawal from the Paris climate accord.

Trump can officially withdraw the US from the Paris agreement — it sets the goal of holding global warming below 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit — as an example of an agreement that “disadvantages the United States to the exclusive benefit of other countries.”

The deal, which was signed by Obama, stipulates that no nation can leave until four years after it signed on. For the US, that’s November 4 — one day after the US election.

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The president has also made clear his desire to leave Afghanistan sooner than the timeline laid out in the February 29 peace agreement with the Taliban, which set the path for US troops to leave the country in 12 to 14 months if the insurgent group met certain conditions.

There are currently about 4,500 US troops in Afghanistan, and Trump has said he wants them all to be withdrawn by the end of the year.

Trump also counts his engagement with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un as a monumental achievement.

The president has not been able to prod Kim to give up his nation’s nuclear program, but he has met Kim three times — something Trump critics say has only legitimized the authoritarian leader.

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Joe Biden says he would begin “the day after the election” rebuilding relationships with allies ruffled by Trump’s approach, which Biden mocks as “America alone”.

Biden’s top priority is reestablishing the foundations of NATO, the post-World War II alliance of Western powers that Biden said is necessary to counter Russia’s aggressive, expansionist aims in eastern Europe and Asia.

Biden also says he would immediately confront Russian President Vladimir Putin about his country’s interference in US elections.

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Joe Biden pledges to “end forever wars” but clarifies that US special forces — as opposed to large-scale ground missions — remain a vital part of world stability.

He calls for rebuilding a decimated US diplomatic corps, rejoining the Paris climate accord and pushing China and other large economies to reduce carbon pollution. 

(Writer: Bill Barrow, Aamer Madhani) 

Source: https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-virus-outbreak-race-and-ethnicity-joe-biden-donald-trump-6e34c858f7209464887fb24aa08a8fd3