[Politics] A possible Trump return looms over Biden's arrival at G20 summit

[FRIDAY THE 13]

 

The last American president to visit India got precisely the celebratory welcome he wanted: billboards featuring Donald Trump and tens of thousands of people jammed into the world’s largest cricket stadium.

Trump is gone, and the billboards are now odes to India's prime minister, Narendra Modi. But Trump's possible return to power looms over the G20 summit in New Delhi this weekend, where President Joe Biden and other leaders of the wealthiest nations will plot ways to curb climate change, reduce global poverty and end the war between Russia and Ukraine.

Sustained progress on these fronts may hinge on the 2024 U.S. presidential race. A Trump victory would shatter the internationalist approach that Biden has pursued in favor of an “America First” foreign policy that could upend old alliances, turning friends into foes and foes into partners.

As president, Trump described his relationship with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un as a love affair while insulting democratically elected leaders of Canada, France and Germany. Last month, he said of Russian President Vladimir Putin, the West’s longtime adversary: “I was the apple of his eye.”

Heading into the Group of 20 meeting of leading rich and developing nations, White House officials implicitly warned that the world can’t afford another four years of Trump. Jake Sullivan, Biden’s national security adviser, said in a press briefing before the trip that Trump’s decision to pull out of a deal meant to stop Iran from developing a nuclear bomb derailed that effort. Mirroring Biden’s habit of not mentioning Trump by name, Sullivan said: “Iran’s nuclear program was in a box. The last guy let it out of the box. We are now trying to manage the results of that decision.”

Sullivan suggested that Trump also blundered in thinking that personal diplomacy would persuade Kim to relinquish his nuclear arsenal. Not only did Kim hang on to the weapons, “North Korea’s missile and nuclear programs had accelerated dramatically,” Sullivan said. 

 

link: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/biden-trump-g20-russia-china-ukraine-rcna104027

 

 

 

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