President Joe Biden has implied that last week’s midterm elections were a repudiation of former President Donald Trump‘s inward-focused “America First” foreign policy agenda.
“The election held in the United States, [which] still leaves a little bit uncertain, has sent a very strong message around the world that the United States is ready to play,” Biden told reporters on Monday in Bali, Indonesia. “The United States, the Republicans who survived along with the Democrats, are of the view that we’re going to stay fully engaged in the world and that we, in fact, know what we’re about.”
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Biden, who claimed his own election heralded a new period of U.S. diplomacy, opened his remarks following his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the G-20 summit by describing this midterm cycle as a demonstration of the country’s commitment “to preserving and protecting and defending democracy.”
Biden and his aides, including national security adviser Jake Sullivan, have commented on international interest in the midterm elections, particularly among Asian counterparts as the region experiences its own challenges with democracy.
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“The president feels very good about, obviously, about the results, as he said to all of you, and he also feels that it does establish a strong position for him on the international stage,” Sullivan said after the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and East Asian summits in Cambodia. “And we saw that, I think, play out in living color today. And I think we’ll see that equally when we head into both the G-20 and to his bilateral engagements in Bali.”
