Almost five months after his inauguration, Joe Biden is preparing to carry out an intense European tour,

. It must lead him to the summit of the industrialized countries of the G7 (scheduled from tomorrow), in the United Kingdom, focused on the vaccination of the whole world, in the name of solidarity between rich and poor States. Then, the President of the United States is expected in Brussels for a NATO summit, before meeting the leaders of the European Union. Finally, he must meet Vladimir Poutine in Geneva on June 16 for a tête-à-tête which will enable the differences between Washington and Moscow to be confirmed. This international sequence

Le Monde is an opportunity (for Joe Biden) to renew, in person, the signals of his country's re-engagement with its allies.

After four years of brutality and humiliation under Donald Trump - which had the advantage of nourishing their need for autonomy - Europeans are torn between two feelings: the taste for reunion and the mistrust of purely verbal effusions.

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The American president is not a saint,

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Tone aside, we have to admit that not much has changed to this day on the other side of the Atlantic. Of course, the United States has reinstated the Paris Agreement on the climate and suspended part of the trade sanctions taken against European countries by Donald Trump. But for the rest, it's always "America First",

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When it comes to vaccination, the world is still waiting for Washington to start exporting its doses.

This did not prevent Joe Biden from proposing without any consultation to lift the patents on vaccines.

The same was true for the announcement of the military disengagement from Afghanistan, in which other NATO countries are nevertheless involved.

Le Figaro

Biden remains silent on Turkish expansionism in the Mediterranean and on American intentions in the face of Erdogan's authoritarianism. He also seems unaware that Europe is directly under the threat of a new expansion of jihadism in the Sahelian strip and in the Middle East. He ignores his hasty withdrawal from Afghanistan, which risks causing chaos there, and pushing millions of refugees to Europe, fleeing the Islamic obscurantism of the Taliban. A follower of multilateralism and civil diplomacy, France will be more comfortable with Biden than it has been with Trump. But,

Le Figaro, she should not be fooled by her good manners and her main principles.

She would have to have the courage to tell him in Brussels: "Mr. President, we very much appreciate your intentions, but it is on your actions that we await you!"

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no one, neither in Washington nor in Europe, believes in the return of the good old days.

Biden has no interest in going back on Obama's “pivot to Asia”, nor the desire to give up on Trump's “America first”.

He just decided to treat his allies as one should,

Southwest

: decently.

Especially when we try to enlist them in what he considers the mother of battles, namely the confrontation with China

diplomatically, the White House has only one priority: China… An "obsession" even according to Jérémy Shapiro, research director at the European Center for Foreign Relations. "In the eyes of the new administration, it is the global and ideological challenge of the next generation, the clear successor of the Cold War and the War on Terror as a guiding principle of American diplomacy," says Jeremy Shapiro. Unlike the Cold War, Europe is no longer a central front. At best, it can play a supporting role in America's battle against Chinese authoritarianism. " Behind the profusion of summits and diplomatic declarations, the acts of the Biden administration illustrate the limited interest in Europe,

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The positions of ambassadors to the EU, NATO, France, the United Kingdom or Germany remain vacant.

Another sign of the Asian and anti-Chinese pivot of Washington, the Japanese Prime Minister and the South Korean president are the only two foreign leaders to have been received since January at the White House.