Will be a President who will stand with US allies not cosy up to dictators: Joe Biden

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has said that, if elected in the November elections, he will be a President who would stand with US allies and friends and not cosy up to dictators. He also assured Americans that he would not leave them at the mercy of China to protect them from the COVID-19 pandemic.

   

Biden, 77, officially accepted the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party on the last day of the four-day virtual Democratic National Convention last night.

   

As a US senator for several decades and the vice president for eight years under former president Barack Obama, Biden played a key role in shaping the



foreign policy of the United States. He travelled extensively and is known personally to the leaders across the world.

   

Asserting that he will lead the fight against coronavirus from day one, Biden said the US will make the medical supplies and protective equipment the country needs. We'll make them here in America. So we will never again be at the mercy of China in order to protect

The US has the highest coronavirus death toll in the world, with 174,248 deaths recorded, according to Johns Hopkins University. The country also has over five million confirmed cases of the disease.