According to the broadcaster, the US vice president intends to focus on cybersecurity and international health engagement
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris intends to pay special attention to cybersecurity and international cooperation in health care in matters relating to U.S. foreign policy, the CBS television network reported on Wednesday. This was reported by CBS television company on Wednesday.
According to her sources in the White House, the vice president intends to actively assist White House Vice President Joe Biden in drafting and implementing the administration’s foreign policy. The vice president has already spoken by phone with the director general of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adanom Gebreyesus, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and French President Emmanuel Macron. She has other contacts planned with foreign leaders, which are not yet specified.
Sources explained that Harris “plans to choose cybersecurity and related technology as her two priorities” as well as engagement with other countries in the health sector. As the story notes, Harris had a special interest in these areas when she was a senator from the state of California.
According to the publication, the U.S. Vice President is well versed in technical issues related to the development of fifth-generation mobile communications. She pays special attention to the fight against the pandemic, is interested in maternal and child health and food security issues.
According to the broadcaster’s sources, Harris is not yet in charge of Washington’s interactions with the leadership of any countries. Biden, for example, as vice president in Barack Obama’s administration, was in fact in charge of US policy towards Ukraine.
According to CBS, neither Biden nor Harris are planning to travel abroad in the first six months after the inauguration.