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US allies welcome Biden's aggressive multilateralism

US allies welcome Biden's aggressive multilateralism

US allies welcome Biden's aggressive multilateralism
May 07, 2021 1 min, 31 secs

BBC State Department correspondent.

During the G7 foreign ministers meeting in Britain this week, state department officials showered us with "C-words" to describe the atmosphere.

What better platform than a gathering of the world's richest democracies to showcase the core of President Joe Biden's foreign policy: an aggressive multilateralism with "like-minded" countries to combat global threats such as pandemics and climate change.

It's a foreign policy vision drafted by Biden's mild-mannered Secretary of State Antony Blinken, a veteran diplomat who received a warm welcome from allies relieved to be putting four years of Donald Trump's erratic unilateralism behind them.

To be fair, we had been warned there wouldn't be much for us to do if we accompanied the secretary of state to Trump's 2018 summit with the Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki - that it would be a White House show.

Biden's national security team is both skilled at drafting policy and at tightly managing the message, weaving talking points into answers to questions so frequently that some have begun to sound like mantras.

The aim of the Blinken/Biden foreign policy agenda is to revert back to a more conventional, less turbulent, rhythm of international relations.

President Biden's approach to China is more coherent than Trump's, but still confrontational, in the name of defending values as well as interests.

"It's irrelevant," a senior state department official added later for emphasis, "they're not thinking about that?

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