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US Democratic Party Foreign Policy Includes China Criticism, International
Alliances

Megan Duzor

   WASHINGTON - The Democratic Party's proposed platform criticizes
   China's trade practices, proposes less spending on national defense,
   and opposes "forever wars" as it seeks to lay out the party's foreign
   policy goals and highlight differences with President Donald Trump.

   The 80-page platform, which is to be adopted at the Democratic
   convention this week, is largely symbolic because the presumptive
   Democratic nominee Joe Biden does not have to endorse its positions.
   However, the platform provides an official outline of the party's
   vision and policy priorities.

   It was crafted by a panel of Democratic leaders, including Biden's last
   remaining challenger for the Democratic nomination, Senator Bernie
   Sanders, and seeks to bridge the gap between the party's progressive
   wing that includes Sanders, and Biden's more moderate approach. The
   proposed platform maintains the broad policy priorities of Biden, who
   is expected to accept the Democratic nomination Thursday from his home
   state of Delaware.

   China criticism

   China has become one of the central foreign policy issues in the 2020
   presidential race, heightened by President Donald Trump's trade war
   with the country as well as the coronavirus pandemic, which originated
   there.

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