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Mixed outlook for India as US returns to multilateralism

Over the weekend, US President Joe Biden’s speeches at two virtual conferences sent out the important signal that America was making a return to multilateralism. “America is back,” he declared at a security conference in Munich, indicating a revival of the NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) alliance that his predecessor had chosen to weaken. Later, in his first address to G7 nation leaders, he spoke of tackling the three “immediate global crises”: The pandemic, economic crisis, and climate change. These statements are reiterations of Mr Biden’s stated positions but they were greeted with relief by America’s allies in Europe and