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General view of the screen as European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President Charles Michel (not pictured) take part in the Online G7 Summit, at European council headquarters in Brussels, Belgium Feb 19, 2021. [Photo/Agencies]
As predicted, US President Joe Biden took advantage of the G7 Summit and the Munich Security Conference on Friday to announce that America is back .
But neither the United States nor the world is the same as they were four years ago, when the world had little knowledge of the extent to which a so-called champion of democracy and freedom could belie itself.
Joe Biden declares America is back in welcome words to allies
US President Joe Biden.
. Updated: 20 Feb 2021, 08:28 AM IST PTI
Without mentioning Donald Trump s name once in his speech, Biden mixed talk of a reinvigorated democratic alliance with a rebuke of his predecessor s approach, a message warmly received by Western allies
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President Joe Biden used his first address before a global audience Saturday to declare that America is back, the transatlantic alliance is back, after four years of a Trump administration that flaunted its foreign policy through an “America First lens.
Speaking to the annual Munich Security Conference virtually, Biden ticked through a daunting to-do list salvaging the Iran nuclear deal, meeting economic and security challenges posed by China and Russia and repairing the damage caused by the coronavirus pandemic that he said would require close cooperation between the U.S. and its Western allies.
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