President Joe Biden has not made any major changes to his predecessor Donald Trump's trade policy, which in turn had major differences with Barack Obama's trade policy.

This is what Sweden's former Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Carl Bildt says in Tuesday's Foreign Office. 

- It is basically, unfortunately, not the big change in policy in the areas that we had hoped for.

"A lot of cleaning work"

Biden's policies have recently been increasingly compared to Trump's.

One of several events that has led critics to compare Biden with Trump is the submarine deal with Australia, where the United States bypassed a furious France.

Carl Bildt says that countries certainly have the right to change, but that the action towards an important ally was "rarely clumsy".

- I think there will be a lot of cleaning work.

Foreign Minister Blinken is in Paris right now, it will take quite a lot to patch this up and the French will do their best to squeeze something out of it.

"Fundamental difference"

But despite a certain continuity in politics, the two presidents have big differences, says Carl Bildt.

- We have a USA that is an important, strong and responsible global player.

That is a crucial difference.

In that sense, the change is fundamental between the attitude and attitude towards international cooperation that Trump had and that Biden had.

Then politics, unfortunately, is seldom as perfect as we wish it were.

Watch the clip to see more of Carl Bildt in the Foreign Office and see more about the similarities between Joe Bidens and Donald Trump's policy in the Foreign Office: Lill-Trump at 19.30 on SVT Play or in SVT2 at 21.45 tonight.