US President Joe Biden, accompanied by Secretary of State Antony Blinken (L), delivered a farewell foreign policy speech to American diplomats at the State Department
ROBERTO SCHMIDT
Trump has vowed to get a Russia-Ukraine peace deal “in 24 hours” and there are fears in Kyiv he may force a ceasefire that sees Ukraine cede territory to Moscow.
Biden meanwhile insisted that China would “never surpass us” and that the United States would remain the world’s dominant superpower.
“According to the latest predictions, on China’s current course they will never surpass us — period,” Biden said.
He added that Washington managed its complex ties with Beijing and that the relationship “never tipped over into conflict” in his four years as president.
Biden’s speech was more restrained on Israel’s war in Gaza, with his administration facing criticism from within his own party for its unstinting support of Israel.
But he said a Gaza ceasefire and hostage-release deal was “on the brink” of “finally coming to fruition.”
The Democrat also defended another major foreign policy fiasco — the fall of Afghanistan’s US-backed government to the Taliban and the bloody US withdrawal of 2021.
“Ending the war was the right thing to do. And I believe history will reflect that,” Biden said.
The 82-year-old president finally urged the Trump administration to continue Biden’s green energy policies, saying climate deniers under Trump were “dead wrong” and “come from a different century.”
Biden’s foreign policy speech will be followed by a farewell address to the nation from the Oval Office in primetime on Wednesday.
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