Joe Biden at the UN it presents the new face of America which relies on a softer approach to global tensions. "A new era of relentless diplomacy"and "of peace"In the world after the withdrawal from Afghanistan and assures that America does not seek"a new cold war " with China, although the warning remains in Beijing not to attack neighboring countries and not to violate human rights as it does with Uighurs.
A 34-minute speech in which he tried to relaunch American leadership in the world with the cooperation of all countries, inviting us to work together to face the most urgent challenges of this "decisive decade", such as the pandemic, climate change, the human rights but also i cyber attacks. Biden hinted that "America is back"On the international front, promising new aid to deal with the main emergencies: further (vaccine) commitments in the fight against the virus, which will be announced on Wednesday at the summit at the White House, the doubling of the US contribution to reach the 100 billion dollars promised by the countries developed to those most vulnerable in the fight against climate change, and a 10 billion dollar commitment against world hunger. The US president has not forgotten two delicate dossiers like the Iranian nuclear power and conflict Israeli-Palestinian, reiterating that the US is ready to re-enter the nuclear deal "if Tehran will do the same"And that the" best solution "in Middle East remains that of two states.
On the European Union. "Basic", Put to the test first by the chaotic withdrawal from Kabul and then by the new US-Australia-Great Britain security pact in the Indo-Pacific (Aukus), with the consequent submarine crisis and the"supportive solidarity"Of European countries to the France after the foreign ministerial meeting on Monday in New York.
"We will continue to defend ourselves against terrorism and to use force if necessary, but as a last resort, and we must do so with the consent of the Americans and in consultation with our allies and our partners ", he clarified, calling for the use of multilateral institutions to address global challenges, including those in the Indo-Pacific area.
"We don't want a new cold war, or a world divided into rigid blocks", Biden assured, specifying that"the United States wants to participate in the competition and participate strongly ". Competition, therefore, not conflict. "With our values and our strength we will defend democracy, our allies and our friends, and we will oppose the attempts of the strongest countries to dominate the weakest.“, He warned the autocracies, before the Chinese president Xi Jinping intervened with a video message.
The Secretary General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres he invited Washington and Beijing to "dialogue" and "understanding" to avoid a degeneration of world crises that would be "much less predictable than the cold war". "The world has never been more threatened or more divided, we are on the edge of an abyss and we are moving in the wrong direction ", Guterres warned, evoking "A planet that moves towards two different sets of economic, commercial, financial and technological rules, two divergent approaches in the development of artificial intelligence and ultimately two different military and geopolitical strategies".
The number one of the UN then listed the open crises, such as the pandemic, the climate warming, the upheavals fromAfghanistan. atEthiopia to the Yemen, the wave of distrust and disinformation.