What are some foreign policies established under George H.W. Bush?

During the 1986 Reykjavik Summit, an agreement in principle was reached to reduce all strategic nuclear weapons by 50% over a five-year period, but it was not until July 1991 that Bush and Gorbachev signed the START I Treaty. Several negotiations produced a Protocol to the START I Treaty signed in 1992 where new nuclear states – USSR, Belarus, Ukraine – pledged to destroy their arsenals by 1999. With this, U.S. Senate ratified START I in October 1992.  The foreign policy challenges emanating from Gorbachev’s reform efforts affected more than just Bush’s arms control agenda and also required the development of a new Eastern Europe policy. The Bush administration followed a “wait and see” policy in responding to most of the developments that already portended the fall of the USSR; eventually, the communist rule in Hungary, Poland, Lithuania and East Germany ended in parallel to the collapse of the Soviet power in the region.  These developments made way for the United States to formulate a “wait and see” policy to counter these new regimes. The Bush administration’s indecision in how to respondto the impending collapse of the USSR also characterized its policy toward China.

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