This story was excerpted from the September 20 edition of CNN's Meanwhile in America, the daily email about US politics for global readers. (CNN) Joe Biden's self-created image of foreign policy expertise has taken a serious blow. The new estrangement between the United States and France looks like another example of extreme carelessness by the administration. Born of Biden's core foreign policy goal of building a regional anti-China front, placing a new fleet of nuclear-powered submarines with Australia could reshape the maritime balance of power in the Pacific. They didn't bargain for this kind of erratic foreign policy management.

Source: CNN September 20, 2021 21:33 UTC