President Joe Biden blatantly takes credit for former President Donald Trump’s diplomatic achievement.
During the G7 summit in Hiroshima, Japan, on Sunday, Biden seemingly claimed that he was responsible for maintaining stability in the hotly contested South China Sea.
BIDEN: "I doubt many people…would've said that two years after being elected, I'd be able to convince India, Australia, Japan, and the United States to form an organization called the Quad."
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The Quad was re-established in 2017 under President Trump. pic.twitter.com/TsUHE4TSqA
“Look, look at the meeting we had here today today and yesterday, the Quad,” the president said. “Did I, I bet you I would… maybe some of you thought it, but I doubt many, many people in this audience or any other audience would’ve said that, two years had to be elected I’d be able to convince India, Australia, Japan, and the United States to form an organization called the Quad to maintain stability in the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea.”
Contrary to Biden’s lies, the Quad was re-established in 2017 under Trump. Liberal news network CNN even reported in 2021 that the Quad meetings were a continuation of diplomatic policy since the Trump administration.
“The new relevance of the Quad summit is a rare mark of continuity between the Trump administration and a Biden White House that reversed much of its predecessor’s foreign policy,” CNN reported at the time. “It is also another sign of the administration’s intent to shift the emphasis of its diplomacy to the Asia-Pacific region, after sacrificing relations with France to send nuclear-powered subs down under.”
“The Quad is not a formal military alliance like NATO,” the news network continued with its report. “But that doesn’t rule out joint exercises in the region. And there is growing speculation that something more formal may emerge, which could mean a debate about what the Quad is actually for.”
Elsewhere at the G7 summit, Biden reiterated that the U.S. was not interested in “strategic decoupling” from China despite Chinese aggression in the region, its cover-up of the COVID-19 pandemic, and its spy balloons deployed over North America recently. He also gave the impression that he would soon speak with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
“We’re not looking to decouple from China. We’re looking to de-risk and diversify our relationship with China,” he said, adding that G7 nations were more unified than ever in terms of “resisting economic coercion together and countering harmful practices that hurt our workers.”
