In his first U.N. speech, the president focused on “our collective future”—and tried to sell his message amid tensions with France and China, and an ongoing pandemic.
suggested the tactic was in line with Trump-era antics. “We thought that this [kind] of unilateralism and unpredictability, the brutality of the announcement, of the lack of respect for a partner, we thought these belonged to the past,” Le Drian said Monday, underscoring the extent to which Biden’s “America is back” message could be a hard sell to a global audience.
Notably, Biden didn’t mention the tiff on Tuesday, but he did endeavor to dismiss some of the criticism—albeit without naming any names. “I’ll say it again, we are not seeking a new cold war or a world divided into rigid blocs,” Biden said. America has rejoined the Paris climate agreement and the World Health Organization—a reversal of’s decisions—and is “running to retake a seat in the Human Rights Council next year at the U.N.
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