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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. The “last primary foreign summits of his presidency,” the Associated Press said, but even as he meets with “the heads of state he works with over the years,” other global leaders have shifted their attention to “what comes back. ” of Donald Trump to the White House means to their countries. “

Biden was going to reach the utmost sanity either “as a confident 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, as he had spent 4 years claiming, ‘America was back,'” CNN said. “He looked for the first one and they gave him the second. ” The demonstrations will be “a kind of elegy for a bygone era that explained American foreign policy for most of the president’s life,” the New York Times said.

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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