President Biden
Joe BidenBiden on Trump acquittal: ‘The case is not in dispute’ White House spokesman resigns after threatening political reporter Trump votes a conviction exposes GOP division MORE A White House statement on Sunday said it would work with leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) countries on Friday for a virtual summit focused on the global response to COVID-19.
At the virtual event hosted in the UK, Biden will ‘focus on a global response to the COVID-19 pandemic’, suggesting that Biden’s government will take an approach to the COVID-19 pandemic involving U.S. allies in a larger role than Trump did administration, which drew the U.S. from the World Health Organization’s COVAX effort to distribute vaccines in less developed countries.
The Biden government promised in January to rejoin the effort, while also promising to vaccinate 100 million Americans within the first hundred days after the president took office.
Other talks with leaders during the summit will focus on economic recovery from the pandemic, which left millions of jobs in the US alone, as well as the G7’s economic stance on China, which promised the president to be responsible for acts of economic espionage. . and other disputed trade issues.
“President Biden will also discuss the global economic recovery, including the importance of all industrialized countries maintaining economic support for the recovery and collective measures to better rebuild,” the White House said in a statement.
“President Biden will also discuss the need for investment to strengthen our collective competitiveness and the importance of updating global rules to address economic challenges such as those of China,” he continued.
Friday’s meeting is the first G7 meeting of Biden’s presidency and the first time the group of allies has met since April last year.