President Joe Biden is set to host King Abdullah II of Jordan during one of the most difficult moments of the Jordanian leader’s 22-year rule and at a pivotal time for Biden.
Biden, who has put much of his foreign policy focus on China and Russia in the early going, faces some difficult issues in the Middle East.
He is dealing with stepped-up attacks against U.S. troops in Iraq and Syria by Iranian-backed militias at the same moment that his administration is trying to nudge Iran back to the negotiating table to revive the nuclear deal. And, of course, I don’t even need to mention the debacle happening in Afghanistan.
How is this visit going to help (or harm) the U.S.’s diplomacy?
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