Biden at the UN: Old-school internationalism faces a test

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : "You'd have to go back a number of administrations, to the senior Bush and [his Secretary of State] James Baker to find that kind of foreign policy success.
49% : Authoritarianism and isolationism - two forces antithetical to the president's conception of international affairs - are on the rise, abroad and at home.
44% : "Indeed, some experts see Russia and China prioritizing other coalitions of countries - China the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) grouping of developing countries, Russia countries like North Korea and Iran that are willing to deliver arms for use in Ukraine - over the postwar, U.S.-led institutions like the U.N.In Washington, critics on the left and right fault Mr. Biden's foreign policy for reasons ranging from a weak record on human rights and democracy - they cite the coups across Africa's Sahel region and his tendency to overlook the human rights shortfalls of partners like India and Saudi Arabia - to the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal and what some call a too-timid approach to China.

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