Biden meeting with EU leaders following soft NATO statement on China

President Biden is meeting with European Union leaders in Brussels as part of a US-EU summit Tuesday morning, where leaders will announce the formation of a joint council to better address China’s predatory economic practices — following a lukewarm communique on the ascendant communist power from the NATO alliance.

“America is back,” the US commander-in-chief repeated after arriving at the summit, “We have never fully left, but we are reasserting the fact it is overwhelmingly in the interest of the United States to have a great relationship with NATO and with the EU.” Without referencing former President Donald Trump by name, the 46th US president went on to note that he had “a very different view than my predecessor” on the two major alliances — highlighting his departure from an American-interest centered agenda in favor of one that ostensibly aligns American interest with global priorities.