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The former vice president also detailed actions he would take under the main pillars of his foreign policy vision -- \"repairing and reinvigorating\" U.S. democracy, while strengthening democracies around the world; helping the middle class succeed in a global economy with a \"foreign policy for the middle class\" and taking a leadership role to coordinate global action on global threats unique to this century -- including climate change, mass migration and nuclear threats.
In addition, Biden said he would 'end forever wars' in Afghanistan and the Middle East, as well as end U.S. support of the Saudi war in Yemen and his plans to deal with the Iran nuclear deal, tensions with Russia and North Korea and the Paris Climate Accord.
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Ahead of the speech, a senior adviser said that Biden -- who has often touted his work alongside Obama during the campaign -- would not simply return to the foreign policy of the previous administration, but use it as a starting point, saying that the U.S. and allies would have to build upon and go further than previous agreements.
Biden displayed this in his remarks on the Iran nuclear deal.
\"If Tehran returns to compliance with the deal, I'd rejoin the agreement and work with our allies to strengthen and extend it, while more effectively pushing back against Iran's destabilizing activities which under the agreement we were allowed to do,\" Biden said, but did not provide details on how he would expand the deal.
Biden also spoke about his career of working on nuclear proliferation, saying he \"understand what's at stake, and understand the consequences of failing to act.\"
\"I will empower our negotiators to jump-start a sustained coordinated campaign with our allies and others including China to advance our shared objective -- and it is a shared objective--of a denuclearized North Korea,\" Biden said.
I'll pursue an extension to the new START treaty, an anchor of strategic stability between the United States and Russia, and use that as a foundation for new arms control agreements,\" Biden continued, adding that he believes the U.S. nuclear arsenal should be used as a deterrent, and only used to retaliate if \"necessary.\"
Biden also previewed plans for two global summits that he would convene while in office -- one to deal with global carbon emissions and one of democracies from around the world to \"strengthen our common resilience and to work more effectively together.\"
In the latter summit, Biden will also challenge private businesses to engage in the discussion, and charge tech and social media companies to \"make their own commitments to make our democracy more resilient, and also to deal with the way technology is being abused in other countries -- for surveillance states facilitating repression and censorship, spreading hate, spurring people to violence,\" a senior Biden official said.
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