How Joe Biden is reshaping America’s global role
His foreign policy isn’t Donald Trump’s. Nor is it Barack Obama’s
THE BIG red button was meant as the emblem of a renewed, warmer relationship, and the Americans thought they had emblazoned it with the word “reset” in Cyrillic. “We worked hard to get the right Russian word,” said the secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, as she presented the gift to the Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov. “Do you think we got it?”
Mr Lavrov smiled. “You got it wrong,” he said, as the two of them pushed the button together. The word was in fact “overload”.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline "Overload"
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