Jimmy Carter’s three consequential foreign policy decisions during his tenure as 39th U.S. President
The HinduWhen Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the U.S., exited the White House in 1981, he was largely written off as an inconsequential leader. And he was easily defeated by Republican Ronald Reagan China Mr. Carter, who died on Sunday at age 100, lived long enough to see historians taking a kinder view of his legacy. While the debate over his legacy continues, it’s not difficult to see that at least three foreign policy decisions he made continued to define his record in the White House and set a new direction for American foreign policy for decades. One, Mr. Carter seized the momentum created by Richard Nixon’s diplomatic breakthrough with communist China and took quick steps to complete the normalisation process. The Carter administration agreed to pull back American military presence from Taiwan and the Taiwan Strait, cut diplomatic ties with Taipei and establish full diplomatic relations with Beijing.
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