Joe Biden had flown across the Atlantic on his first foreign trip as president. In England, Boris Johnson and Biden will sign a new Atlantic Charter for the post-covid era. Both leaders are also committed to alleviating restrictions on trips between the US and Britain.
The US has promised to buy a 500m pfizer vaccine dose to distribute to 100 countries. The state will buy a dose at regular prices, and send it to be distributed through the Covax program. This step came as a member of parliament in the US and abroad has urged the US and Europe to release vaccine patents, so that developing countries can be cheap and easy to produce their own doses.
The XL Keystone pipe was canceled, in the peak of a decade of activism by indigenous protesters. TC Energy, a Calgary-based developer from Keystone XL Pipeline, said it would plan a “secure disconnection and out of the” project. The pipe began to be built last year, during the Trump administration. But Joe Biden canceled the permit for the $ 9 billion project as one of his first actions as president.
Republican Party Philibustered The Paycheck Fairness Act. The minority leader of the Senate Mitch McConnell stated “the bipartistic era ended” and vowed to block other upcoming bills driven by Democrats.
Analysis: China Specter at a party when Biden aims to rally democracy on European travel
BORTER JULIAN JULIAN BORGER
The unified theme behind European tour Joe Biden this week is a country that will not be at any meeting and may not even be mentioned in the last communique: China.
Before leaving on his first foreign trip as president, Biden had explained that competition between world democracy and authoritarian regime – mostly important Beijing – is a decisive global challenge from age, with any victory but guaranteed for the US and it is guaranteed allies.
To win, the President believes the democratic camp must show far greater cohesion and ambition in response to the largest problem in the world, the most important climate change and pandemic.
It will be a message in the next series of peaks over the next few days: G7 leaders in Cornwall, NATO and EU in Brussels and then face-to-face meetings with Vladimir Putin in Geneva.
While Russia is seen as the most aggressive autocracy in the short-term for the election, launching a cyber attack and renewing military pressure on Ukraine – Biden focused on the long-term challenges of China who are economically successful, increasingly under the exclusive control of President XI Jinping.
Biden is a recent conversion to this assessment just two years ago, he argued that the worries of China’s revival was exaggerated.
“It will be our lunch? Come on, friend,” he told the audience in Iowa in 2019. “I mean, you know, they are not a bad person, people. But guess what? They are not competition for us.”
Intervening months have shaken that satisfaction. In a two-hour telephone call in February, according to the Wall Street Journal, XI explained to the Biden with a length of how China intends beyond the US as a world pre-superior power.
The President is said to be preoccupied with the theme, raising it persistent in private and public conversations. In Washington Post Commentary on Saturday about his trip to Europe, Biden called China four times.
0
0
