Biden, Trudeau Bypass Tension for Unity on Virus, China, Climate
- Virtual discussions intended to set road map for cooperation
- Talks billed as Biden’s first bilateral meeting as president
Joe Biden, center, during a virtual bilateral meeting with Justin Trudeau, on screen, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House.
Photographer: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images
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Joe Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said their nations would adopt a unified approach toward the pandemic, climate change and China, setting aside trade and other tensions in what the White House called the new U.S. president’s first bilateral meeting.
After about a two-hour virtual meeting between the two leaders and their staffs on Tuesday, Biden said that they had agreed to cooperate to strengthen the World Health Organization and industrial supply chains, “tackle climate change” and “better compete with China.”