President Biden tried to reassure U.S. allies Friday that he is turning the page on his predecessor’s “America First” approach and restoring a foreign policy that values cooperation with the world’s major democracies to tackle global challenges. We are looking forward together,” Biden declared to the Munich Security Conference, an annual gathering of world leaders to discuss international security. “The big issue for Biden is trust, in the sense that a lot of allies are still not convinced where our politics are heading,” Townsend said. They’re not extractive,” Biden said, implicitly disavowing Trump’s mercantilist world view and indifference to democratic values, which strained alliances and enabled adversaries. In his remarks, Biden stopped short of articulating a timeframe or specific preconditions for resuming talks with Tehran.

Source: Los Angeles Times February 19, 2021 19:52 UTC