WASHINGTON, June 18 ― A top aide said yesterday that US President Joe Biden’s first foreign trip showed G7 and Nato unity in pushing back on Beijing but that Biden was also ready to meet his counterpart Xi Jinping.
Jake Sullivan, the national security adviser, said Biden showed an alternative to China by leading the Group of Seven in a new infrastructure initiative and that a Nato summit for the first time succeeded in “truly taking the security challenge posed by China…