Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Year : 2, Issue: 20
AFP: Joe Biden said Monday that America was stronger on the global stage than it had been for decades, in a swansong foreign policy speech one week before Donald Trump’s White House comeback.
The outgoing US president took aim at Russia, China and Iran, and urged the West to maintain support for Ukraine in an address at the State Department setting out his international legacy.
But Biden’s unspoken target was Trump as he touted his rebuilding of international alliances over the last four years after his Republican rival’s chaotic first term.
“The United States is winning the worldwide competition compared to four years ago,” said Biden, after diplomats at the State Department gave him a standing ovation. “America is stronger. Our alliances are stronger, our adversaries and competitors are weaker.”
The Democrat added that America’s ties with its allies were the strongest “in decades”.
