State of South Carolina Archives: on Foreign Policy

Jaime Harrison: Re-engage with allies; pursue diplomatic solutions

Joe Biden: Meet with North Korea and China together

BIDEN: You don't negotiate with a dictator, give him legitimacy without any notion whether he is going to do anything at all. You don't do that. Look what happened. [President Trump] gave this dictator--he's a thug--legitimacy. We've weakened the sanctions around the world.

Q: So what would you do?

BIDEN: I would be in Beijing, I would be speaking with Xi Jinping. I would be reassigning the relationship between the Japan and South Korea, and I would make it clear to China, we are going to continue to move closer to make sure that we can, in fact, prevent North Korea from launching missiles to take them down.

Mike Bloomberg: Only solution is to split up Israel and Palestine

Number one, you can't move the embassy back. We should not have done it without getting something from the Israeli government. But it was done, and you're going to have to leave it there.

Number two, only solution here is a two-state solution. The Palestinians have to be accommodated. The real problem here is you have two groups of people, both who think God gave them the same piece of land. And the answer is to obviously split it up, leave the Israeli borders where they are, try to push them to pull back some of those on the other side of the wall, where they've built these new communities, which they should not have done that, pull it back.

Walid Hakim: Pay our dues to the UN, but end Security Council

A: End all aid to Israel and Egypt. End the UN Security Council. Pay all of our dues to the UN.

Catherine Fleming Bruce: Rebuild "soft power" in international community

A: On Foreign Relations:
• Rebuild credibility with the international community
• Maximize soft power in vulnerable regions of the world.
• Negotiate skillfully
• Consistently demonstrate the significant elements of leadership