The field of candidates vying to represent the Republican Party in 2024 is expanding at a dizzying rate. Former President Donald Trump , Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis , and … everyone else is falling over themselves to convince voters not only why they are the better face of the GOP, but how they can be the one to evict President Joe Biden from the White House next year.

The problem here is that candidates — and, to a lesser extent, many conservative Americans — are either fighting over who can get deeper in the gutter while battling one another to win the primary alone, or they are focused entirely on the ubiquitous “culture war.”

Now, don’t get me wrong, the culture war must be a crucial element of the Republican Party platform. But it’s also crucial that conservatives acknowledge and capitalize upon Biden’s greatest and most dangerous weakness: foreign policy.

Because Biden can’t stop screwing up on the international stage.

The latest example started after Secretary of State Antony Blinken spent two days in Beijing meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping and other top officials in an apparent effort to “stabilize” the relationship between the United States and China.

This embarrassing spectacle — which included undermining American policy by stating that the U.S. “does not support Taiwan independence” — was a success, according to Blinken, with both sides making “progress.”

On Monday, Biden told reporters that we are “on the right trail here,” that he knew progress had been made, and that Blinken did “a hell of a job.”

And then, on Tuesday, Biden called Xi a dictator who was clueless about his own spy balloons.

Chinese officials were obviously furious, describing Biden’s comments as “extremely absurd,” “irresponsible,” and an “open political provocation.”

So one day after Blinken returned to the United States after practically bending over for the Chinese government in an attempt to turn down the temperature, Biden shuffled in and turned up the heat. Why? Good question.

Now, the fact that Chinese officials were offended is immaterial. What matters here is that Joe Biden’s foreign policy regarding China is as chaotic as a night out with Hunter Biden. Why bother debasing the international standing of the United States by shipping over Blinken on a sucking-up-to-China tour if Biden is going to erase any progress made almost immediately?

But, of course, this level of foreign policy ineptitude is hardly a surprise. Let’s not forget that this is the same Joe Biden who opposed Ronald Reagan ’s “Strategic Defense Initiative,” which drove the Soviet Union into collapse and ended the Cold War. The same Joe Biden who voted against the 1991 Gulf War and for the Iraq War in 2002 — something he later denied. And the same Joe Biden who was against the raid on Osama Bin Laden, telling President Barack Obama that his “suggestion is don’t go” — something he also later denied.

It’s one thing to point out that Biden is in the final throes of a dementia-addled decline. It’s another to argue that he has been and will always be utterly unqualified as commander in chief.

Foreign policy is, in many ways, fairly simple. In public, hold your cards close to your chest, and in private, act ruthlessly and (when needed) unpredictably. Biden does the opposite — placing the entire country, if not the world, in danger.

While other issues might generate more attention on the domestic stage, there is no greater responsibility for the president of the United States than defending American interests at home and abroad.

And it’s this undeniable fact that must stand as a catalyst for the entire Republican platform to unite against Biden’s greatest weakness. Because whether it be Trump, DeSantis, or any one of the GOP second-stringers, the danger posed by Biden’s moronic foreign policy is one that needs to be vanquished.

The culture war might get clicks, but every day that Biden is at the helm, China is beckoning the U.S. toward a cliff. It’s up to the GOP field, and, ultimately, voters, whether we let Biden steer us over the edge.

Ian Haworth ( @ighaworth ) is the host of Off Limits with Ian Haworth . You can also find him on Substack .