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President Joe Biden arrived in Peru Thursday for an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Lima followed by a G20 summit in Brazil, with a first-ever presidential visit to the Amazon rainforest in between. Biden’s six-day trip marks the “final major international summits of his presidency,” The Associated Press said, but even as he meets with “heads of state he’s worked with over the years,” the other world leaders have shifted their focus to “what Donald Trump’s return to the White House means for their countries.”
Biden was going to arrive at the summits “as a self-assured statesman honing a legacy and preparing to pass it on to his vice president” or face “anxious global leaders and new questions about whether Array, as he had claimed for 4 years, “America was back,” CNN said. “He looked first. He was given the second. ” These rallies will be “an elegy for a bygone era that explained American foreign policy for most of the president’s life,” 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 news and culture editor and editor at The Week since the site launched in 2008. He covers politics, global affairs, faith and cultural trends. His journalism 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.