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president Joe Biden arrived Wednesday in Britain for a series of meetings with world leaders bent stressing the message of his first foreign trip as president: “The us is back.”
“We’re going to make it clear that the us is back and democracies of the earth are standing together to tackle the toughest challenges and thus the problems that matter most to our future,” Biden said, chatting with U.S. Air Force personnel and their families stationed at Royal Air Force Mildenhall shortly after he landed.
“Our alliances weren’t built by coercion or maintained by threats. They’re grounded in democratic ideals, a shared vision of the long run , where every voice matters,” he said.
Biden’s remarks underscore his administration’s efforts to use the Europe trip to re-establish America’s place at the international negotiating table following President Donald Trump’s isolationist approach to policy , which frayed relationships with key U.S. allies.
The pandemic response and cybersecurity are getting to be topics at the G-7 summit, Biden said. Recent ransomware attacks have disrupted organizations around the world, including hospitals in Ireland, Germany and France, also as pipelines within the U.S. and banks within the U.K.
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Biden said that at the NATO summit in Brussels, he would make it clear that the U.S.’s commitment to Article 5 was “rock solid,” calling it a “sacred obligation.” Article 5, the cornerstone of the NATO alliance, says an attack against one ally should be treated as an attack against all members.
After the G-7 and NATO summits, Biden will meet with Russian President Putin in Geneva, their first in-person meeting since Biden took office. Biden said he plans to “let him know what i might like him to know .”
Biden also underscored what he sees as a requirement to showcase the facility of democratic institutions to deliver results, particularly as autocracies rise.
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“We got to expose as false the narrative that the decrees of dictators can match the speed and scale” of 21st century challenges, Biden said. “You which i do know they’re wrong. But it does not imply that we don’t got to work harder than ever to prove that democracy can still deliver for our people.”
Biden is predicted to announce at the G-7 meeting his plan to buy 500 million doses of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine to donate to other countries battling limited supplies, three people familiar with the plan said.
National security adviser Jake Sullivan said the move would help demonstrate that democratic systems are equipped to “best deliver solutions for people everywhere.”
Biden described the G-7 and NATO gatherings as “essential” diplomacy, “because no single nation acting alone can meet all of the challenges we face today,” including countering the pandemic and global global climate change .
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