Analysis: On President Biden's trip, a foreign policy for domestic consumption.
While former President Barack Obama's trips abroad centered on sweeping, thematic speeches outlining U.S. policy, Biden plans no major addresses. He's also not taking an aggressive swagger to gatherings of world leaders — first the Group of Seven summit in the U.K., then the NATO meeting in Brussels — as Trump did.
"It's the first trip. It's a very packed schedule. And the goal of the trip is far more about America taking its place on the world stage," said Anita Dunn, a senior White House adviser. The message Biden will take on his first foreign trip as president flows directly from his last as vice president a little more than four years ago. Addressing the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, just two days before Trump was inaugurated, Biden warned that the forces of globalization were"effectively hollowing out the middle class — the traditional engine of economic growth and social stability in Western nations.
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