Biden says he is leaving Trump with a ‘strong hand to play’ in world conflicts

President Joe Biden waits to speak about foreign policy at the State Department in Washington. Picture: Susan Walsh/AP

President Joe Biden said on Monday that his stewardship of American foreign policy has left the US safer and economically more secure, and that President-elect Donald Trump will inherit a country viewed as stronger and more reliable than it was four years ago.

Mr Biden trumpeted his administration’s work on expanding Nato, rallying allies to provide Ukraine with military aid to fight Russia, and bolstering American chip manufacturing to better compete with China, during a wide-ranging speech to reflect on his foreign policy legacy a week before ceding the White House to Mr Trump.