could be forgiven for thinking that the french would not see it that way given that they consider that americans of stabbing them in the back by going into that submarine deal with the australians. president biden did make good on his pledge to lead on covid and to lead on climate by making that important commitment on climate financing, doubling the amount of money that america is giving to the developing world so that it will reach this target of hundred billion dollars for the developing world to help them deal with climate change, money coming from the rich countries that was one thing. secondly tomorrow he is going to hold this virtual summit on coronavirus vaccine for the world. he said the world leaders should commit to vaccinating 70% of the world by the end of 2022. those are to firm things he can point to. amid doubts about whether america is back really isn t so different to america ist. there he was showing that he is very different to his predecessor, president trump. fig
prime minister. i don t think it s that at all. the thing about biden, particularly from his days, his many days and years as a senior senator on the finance committee and then on foreign relations committee is that he takes a very hard nosed pragmatic view of american relationships around the world was up and one of the things we have to remember is that it wasn t donald trump who invented america ist. america first is in the mothers milk out of everybody in the united states. and what we have seen is a pragmatic ruthlessness of biden first of all in dealing with cobble evacuation. we also see it in the creation in the office of the australia, uk trilateral security arrangement which is what the french nose out of