Biden Touts B3W Developing World Infrastructure Plan in UN Address

US President Joe Biden addresses the 76th Session of the UN General Assembly in New York on September 21, 2021. EDUARDO MUNOZ / POOL / AFP

Joe Biden didn’t say the word “China” once in his sweeping, half-hour-long address to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, his first as U.S. president, but confronting Beijing nonetheless emerged as a key theme. 

On issues ranging from COVID vaccine distribution to the rise of authoritarianism around the world to building infrastructure in developing countries, President Biden repeatedly used indirect references to China’s positions on those issues to frame his government’s policies.

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