Foreign Policy Update – USA Gov Policy

SUDAN

The United States on Wednesday condemned the recent attacks on protesters in Sudan. The State Department Spokesperson said the US calls on “Sudan’s Transitional Military Council and the Rapid Support Forces to desist from violence and we call for resumed contact with the Forces for Freedom and Change with the aim of a civilian-led transition that leads to timely elections and free expression of the will of the Sudanese people. We support the African Union (AU) Peace and Security Council’s April 30 communique.”

Senior Department officials currently are engaging with officials in the region in an attempt to encourage restraint and find a peaceful solution to the challenges in Sudan. Washington also welcomed the recent statements from the AU, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia calling for restraint from violence and resumption of dialogue.

GERMANY

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel last week to discuss key shared priorities, including supporting Ukraine and countering Russian aggression. The two discussed the Iranian regime’s escalating threats in the region against American interests and the need to counter Iran’s missile activities and regional aggression, according to the State Department Spokesperson. The leaders also discussed the countries’ shared interests around efforts to forge a political settlement that ends the conflict in Afghanistan, while preserving the gains of the last 18 years.

CHINA

The Internet of the future, according to the Secretary of State, must have western values within it. While in Europe Secretary of State Pompeo spoke with the press. When asked about the threat from China’s Huawei he responded: “Western countries, liberal democracies share a common value set. The Chinese don’t share that value set, and so their infrastructure, their IT systems, and in a particular case a company called Huawei, are fundamentally different.”

Pompeo pointed out that the incentive, if you’re Huawei, is to work with the Chinese Government. He said they have “three members of the Communist Party sitting on their board of directors. This is deeply inconsistent with how we protect security of the people of Netherlands and the people of Europe and the people of the United States. And we have made very clear that there’s real risk.”

IRAN

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When asked if there was any divergence between Europe’s and the United States’ position on Iran, Secretary Pompeo last week responded: “I saw foreign minister – Foreign Secretary Hunt, right? He said… we share a common view on the threat from Iran. We’ve departed ways on the JCPOA. We had a different analytical analysis of the best way to prevent Iran from having a pathway to a nuclear weapon system. Yeah, that technical piece we disagree on. But the thrust, the goal, the risk, the threat, I think Europeans and Americans share a very common understanding about.”

While in Europe this past week Pompeo said that those items that are subject to sanctions, “we will do our best to enforce the American sanctions regime that is put in – has been put in place.” But for those that aren’t, he added, for “humanitarian goods, things that are permitted to move, whether they move through INSTEX or through another mechanism – those are lawful and appropriate and are permitted to continue under the sanctions laws that we’ve put in place.”

SYRIA

Responding to questions about Syria from reporters in Europe, Pompeo pointed out that US efforts in Syria are “aimed at a political resolution of the conflict in Syria” with UN Security Resolution 2254 as the guidepost. He added that the “effort to get the constitutional assembly put together is something that we collectively have been working on for some time, and we hope to make progress. There is another element to our effort, which is to reduce risk of violence. You’ve seen the work that we’ve done with the Turks in Manbij, west of the Euphrates River, and we are attempting to set up a system – something akin to that, call it a buffer zone, call it what you will – that will reduce risk of terrorists attacking from Syria into Turkey and reduce risks that Turkey will come south and disrupt Kurdish activity inside of Syria.”

Pompeo noted that the United States is committed forces there to work towards that political resolution and has asked its European partners to assist as Washington develops plans and sees what the force requirements will actually look like.

DARIA NOVAK served in the United States State Department during the Reagan Administration, and currently is on the Board of the American Analysis of News and Media Inc., which publishes usagovpolicy.com and the New York Analysis of Policy and Government. Each Saturday, she presents key updates on U.S. foreign policy from the State Department.

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Quick Analysis

America’s Terrorists in Training

When students, trained and equipped by Hamas and its financial backers, occupy campuses and threaten Jews and anyone who disagrees with them, it is neither a peaceful protest nor an exercise of free speech. It is a terrorist attack. Those students are not peaceful protestors. They are terrorists in training. It has been reported that many of those arrested are not even students, but individuals with ties to terrorists or anti-American activities. Their mission is not to protest, not to persuade, but to force institutions to bend to their will. Their targets are two-fold: First, in adherence to Hamas’ anti-Semitism, an attack on not just Israelis but Jews everywhere. Second, to weaken America’s influence in the crucial Middle Eastern region. But students do make up the majority of those involved. The blatant ignorance of so many protestors did not occur spontaneously or recently. Years of preparation went into it. Radical extremists infiltrated the educational system, from kindergarten through graduate school, for decades with the purpose of destroying pride in America and imposing a leftist agenda. On-air interviews of involved students have been revealing. Beyond chanted slogans, the students appear to have little knowledge of the actual dynamics of the Middle Eastern conflict that they appear to be so passionate about. What did come clearly though was a hair trigger response to condemn America and American institutions. That is the intentional result of many years of academic indoctrination. History has been taught through the prism of anti-Americanism. The extraordinary accomplishments in human freedom, the enormous good done by the nation have been obscured, while faults, even though they were corrected, are magnified. The Federalist notes that “America’s academic leaders seem powerless only because they’ve spent decades promoting the ideologies now on such brutal and ugly display… many administrators claim to be stunned. Yet those of us who’ve been following the disastrous decline of American higher education have been warning for years about the inevitable. America’s academic leaders seem powerless only because they’ve spent decades promoting the ideologies now on such brutal and ugly display. Years ago, America’s most prestigious academics made a conscious choice to elevate indoctrination over education. Training activists became their highest goal. Radical ideologies that began in Ethnic and Gender Studies swallowed once-proud social science and humanities disciplines. Their influence surged into administration, as new DEI offices redefined diversity, equity, and inclusion to mean their opposites, then spread their toxin throughout university operations. Wildly generous foreign money — with Qatar and China in the lead — anchored this noxious brew in place. The American Enterprise Institute found that “The 1619 Project and its companion resources have spread to thousands of schools (and counting) in all 50 states, priming students to reject America’s founding principles and even literally black out the Declaration of Independence. Meanwhile, tales of politically radical K–12 instruction seem to break into the news almost daily.” The Discovery Institute notes that “ teacher unions, rather than modeling positive social behavior, instead promote indoctrination of students on partisan political viewpoints…. Today, leaders holding high government offices at the federal and state levels are quickly exploiting an underlying principle: The less educated our citizens are regarding civics, the more pliable they are to the acceptance of radical philosophies and agenda, and the more government power can grow. The end result will be a loss of the American Dream — life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. Don’t believe this? Take a look at the citizens of today’s socialist and communist countries around the world. According to Ben Shapiro, “while advocates of Marxism today disown the Stalinists and the Maoists and the Castro regime and Venezuela and North Korea, all of those nations thought they were fulfilling Marx’s dream, too.” A Manhattan Institute review reports that “Results of a representative survey of more than 1,500 Americans aged 18 to 20 suggest that Critical Race Theory (CRT) and radical gender ideology, together known as Critical Social Justice (CSJ), is widespread in American schools. Ninety-three percent of American 18- to 20-year-olds said that they had heard about at least one of eight CSJ concepts from a teacher or other adult at school, including “white privilege,” “systemic racism,” “patriarchy,” or the idea that gender is a choice unrelated to biological sex. Additionally, 90% of respondents had heard about at least one CRT concept and 74% about at least one radical gender concept. The campus protests are a window of what’s in store for the nation if the influence of anti-American educators continue.