Biden vows US will return as a leader in the Asia-Pacific
President-Elect Joe Biden has stressed his plans for a foreign policy based on the United States taking a global leadership role and strengthening its alliances in the Asia-Pacific region after four turbulent years under President Donald Trump.
Introducing his planned national security team, Biden said his selection for Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, would rebuild morale and trust in the US State Department.
The team embodied his core belief āthat America is strongest when it works with its alliesā, Biden said.
āItās a team that reflects the fact that America is back, ready to lead the world, not retreat from it,ā he told a news briefing in Wilmington, Delaware, on Tuesday.
Biden said had been struck in calls with world leaders āby how much theyāre looking forward to the United States reasserting its historic role as a global leader over the Pacific, as well as the Atlantic, all across the worldā.
Biden vowed to strengthen alliances in the Asia-Pacific stressed the diplomatic experience of his team, which had, working with partners, secured āsome of the most defining national security and diplomatic achievements in recent memoryā.
During the election campaign, Biden vowed to reverse Trumpās decision to pull the United States out of the Paris accord on climate change, take a tough line on Chinaās expanding influence worldwide and rejoin the Iran nuclear accord if Tehran resumes strict compliance.
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As well as Blinken, Bidenās team includes Jake Sullivan as national security adviser and Linda Thomas-Greenfield as US ambassador to the United Nations.
Biden, who is due to take office on January 20, said he hoped the Republican-dominated Senate would give a prompt hearing to his nominees.
Blinken also stressed the need to work with allies, who Trump often made a target for public criticism as part of his āAmerica Firstā approach to foreign policy.
āWe need to be working with other countries, we need their co-operation, we need their partnershipā he said.
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