America is back, declares Biden in his first global address

President Joe Biden used his first address before a global audience Saturday to declare that "America is back. Speaking to the annual Munich Security Conference virtually, Biden  has said there is a need for a long-term strategy to push back against China’s “economic abuses” and appealed to Europe and Asian allies to join forces against the Chinese competition. Competition with China is going to be stiff. That’s what I expect and that’s what I welcome, because I believe in the global system Europe and the United States, together with our allies in the Indo-Pacific, worked so hard to build over the last 70 years,” added President Joe Biden.

I know the past few years have strained and tested the transatlantic relationship,” Biden said. “The United States is determined to reengage with Europe, to consult with you, to earn back our position of trusted leadership.”The president also participated Friday in a virtual meeting of the Group of Seven industrialized nations, where leaders managed to work Biden's campaign theme into their closing joint statement, vowing to “work together to beat Covid-19 and build back better.”German Chancellor Angela Merkel noted that some differences between the US and Europe remain “complicated.” Europe sees China's economic ambitions as less of an existential threat than the US does and has its own strategic and economic concerns that are not always in sync with Biden on Russia as well.