https://edition.cnn.com/2021/04/28/world/biden-100-days-foreign-policy-intl/index.html
But the biggest challenge Biden will face in striking this balance between America First and returning to the world stage will be reinventing the country's China strategy. Under four years of Trump, the US had an on-again-off-again relationship with China. It ended mostly "off," and in confrontational competitiveness, with little collaboration.
Biden's posturing against China may not be as bombastic as Trump's, but it doesn't appear to be very different either. In an interview with the New York Times last year,
he couldn't help but accidentally utter "America First" in his own
remarks on China. It's a difficult phrase to avoid. "I want to make sure
we're going to fight like hell by investing in America first," he said.
Biden's job is to put America first. Obama never did that. Trump did but awkwardly and with lots of stumbles. But the job of the American President is to put America's interests first.
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