U.S. Senate confirms Blinken as new secretary of state

The U.S. Senate on Tuesday approved foreign policy expert Antony Blinken to become secretary of state, as the new administration of President Joe Biden seeks to revive U.S. relationships with allies and return to multilateralism.Blinken has been a critic of former President Donald Trump's "America First" foreign policy, slamming it as having weakened U.S. alliances and left a vacuum in the world for China to fill. He has advocated working with U.S. partners so that the United States can engage with China from "a position of strength."A longtime foreign policy adviser to Biden, the 58-year-o…READ FULL ARTICLE