Chin said "the might of the U.S. military should only be brought to bear when all efforts at diplomacy have failed and when America, or our interests, are threatened with imminent harm." Chin has been critical of what he describes as President Donald Trump's "dangerous tendency to conduct U.S. foreign policy via Twitter – even as he undercuts real diplomacy by failing to staff the State Department." He has previously indicated supporting a vote to repeal and replace the Authorization for Use of Military Force, a measure passed in the wake of the September 11 attacks, which he says "has been used by presidents of both parties to engage in short-sighted and destabilizing military campaigns in places like Iraq and Libya."
