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President Joe Biden arrived in Peru on Thursday for an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Lima, followed by a G20 summit in Brazil, with a first presidential stop in the Amazon rainforest in between. Biden’s six days mark the “last primary foreign summits of his presidency,” the Associated Press said, but even as he meets with “heads of state he has worked with over the years,” other world leaders have focused their focus on “what Donald Trump’s return to the White House means for their countries. “
Biden is still going to reach the peak of sanity, whether “as a self-assured statesman polishing a legacy and preparing to pass it on to his vice president,” or in the face of “anxious global leaders and new questions about whether, like him” He had spent 4 years claiming, ‘America is back,'” CNN said. “He sought the first and was given the second. ” The protests will be “a kind of elegy for a bygone era that explained American foreign policy for the longest time. ” part of the life of president,” said the New York Times.
Biden will sit down with China’s Xi Jinping on Saturday after holding a joint meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol today. But Yoon is already “dusting off his golf clubs, in case the chance to bond with the golf-loving Trump should present itself,” the AP said. “A lame duck is a lame duck,” former U.S. diplomat Ricardo Zúñiga told the Times. “And they know it.”
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Peter has worked as a news and culture editor and editor at The Week since the site launched in 2008. It covers politics, global affairs, faith, and cultural trends. His journalistic career began as an editor at a monetary news agency and has included editorial positions at The New York Times Magazine, Facts on File, and Oregon State University.