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. 🌍 🇺🇸 DEEP DIVE —

Biden takes his "America is back" doctrine on the road this week — the biggest test yet of his belief that the U.S. can better confront adversaries by embracing allies, @DavidLawler10 writes.

🇬🇧 - Thursday
🇧🇪 - 6/14
🇷🇺 - 6/16

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🇷🇺 U.S.-Russia relations are at their lowest point since the fall of the Soviet Union ahead of Biden's summit with Putin in Geneva — the site of Reagan's first meeting with Gorbachev in 1985, @zacharybasu writes.

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🇨🇳 Biden has embraced several of Trump's moves on China, and used them to persuade reluctant U.S. progressives and even some European leaders that a more muscular China policy is necessary, from @BethanyAllenEbr

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🇮🇱 🇵🇸 Biden initially saw the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a low priority that wasn't worth investing political capital. But the latest fighting in Gaza exposed how unprepared the administration was for an escalation, @BarakRavid writes.

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🤝 Biden has rebooted America's foreign policy apparatus, reestablished diplomatic channels and reassured allies — and adversaries — that predictability will define his approach. Now comes the hard part, from @HansNichols.

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👍 Favorable views of the U.S. increased after Biden's inauguration in nearly every country.

The exception: China

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💉 The pivot from vaccine hoarder to global supplier could be the most important foreign policy move Biden makes this year.

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