Joe Biden's new foreign policy focuses on middle-class Americans

National security adviser Jake Sullivan and other senior aides are also making it clear that doesn't portend a return to a pre-Trump model

Joe Biden has followed the path of many American presidents in bringing his own foreign policy brand into office. His “foreign policy for the middle class” is less pithy than Donald Trump’s “America First.” But for a world trying to gauge the US’s new leadership—and an electorate with an uneasy relationship with globalisation and other disruptive economic forces—it may be just as consequential.
 
Biden’s promise to the world is reengagement, whether on issues from which the US has been absent, such as climate change, or in multilateral institutions his predecessor sought to blow up, such as the WHO. But