<p>President-Elect Joe Biden on Tuesday stressed his plans for a foreign policy based on the United States taking a global leadership role and strengthening its alliances in the Asia-Pacific region after four turbulent years under President Donald Trump.</p>.<p>Introducing his planned national security team, Biden said his selection for Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, would rebuild morale and trust in the US State Department.</p>.<p>The team embodied his core belief "that America is strongest when it works with its allies," Biden said.</p>.<p>"It's a team that reflects the fact that America is back, ready to lead the world, not retreat from it," he told a news briefing in Wilmington, Delaware.</p>.<p>Biden said had been struck in calls with world leaders "by how much they're looking forward to the United States reasserting its historic role as a global leader over the Pacific, as well as the Atlantic, all across the world."</p>.<p>Biden vowed to strengthen alliances in the Asia-Pacific stressed the diplomatic experience of his team, which had, working with partners, secured "some of the most defining national security and diplomatic achievements in recent memory."</p>.<p>"That's how we truly keep America safe. Without engaging in needless military conflicts, and our adversaries in check," he said.</p>.<p>During the election campaign, Biden vowed to reverse Trump's decision to pull the United States out of the Paris accord on climate change, take a tough line on China's expanding influence worldwide and rejoin the Iran nuclear accord if Tehran resumes strict compliance.</p>.<p>In addition to Blinken, Biden's team includes Jake Sullivan as national security adviser and Linda Thomas-Greenfield as US ambassador to the United Nations.</p>.<p>Biden, who is due to take office on Jan. 20, said he hoped the Republican-dominated Senate would give a prompt hearing to his nominees.</p>.<p>Blinken also stressed the need to work with allies, who Trump often made a target for public criticism as part of his "America First" approach to foreign policy.</p>.<p>"We can't solve all the world's problems alone" he said. "We need to be working with other countries, we need their cooperation, we need their partnership."</p>.<p>Thomas-Greenfield added: "I want to say to you: America is back. Multilateralism is back. Diplomacy is back."</p>
<p>President-Elect Joe Biden on Tuesday stressed his plans for a foreign policy based on the United States taking a global leadership role and strengthening its alliances in the Asia-Pacific region after four turbulent years under President Donald Trump.</p>.<p>Introducing his planned national security team, Biden said his selection for Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, would rebuild morale and trust in the US State Department.</p>.<p>The team embodied his core belief "that America is strongest when it works with its allies," Biden said.</p>.<p>"It's a team that reflects the fact that America is back, ready to lead the world, not retreat from it," he told a news briefing in Wilmington, Delaware.</p>.<p>Biden said had been struck in calls with world leaders "by how much they're looking forward to the United States reasserting its historic role as a global leader over the Pacific, as well as the Atlantic, all across the world."</p>.<p>Biden vowed to strengthen alliances in the Asia-Pacific stressed the diplomatic experience of his team, which had, working with partners, secured "some of the most defining national security and diplomatic achievements in recent memory."</p>.<p>"That's how we truly keep America safe. Without engaging in needless military conflicts, and our adversaries in check," he said.</p>.<p>During the election campaign, Biden vowed to reverse Trump's decision to pull the United States out of the Paris accord on climate change, take a tough line on China's expanding influence worldwide and rejoin the Iran nuclear accord if Tehran resumes strict compliance.</p>.<p>In addition to Blinken, Biden's team includes Jake Sullivan as national security adviser and Linda Thomas-Greenfield as US ambassador to the United Nations.</p>.<p>Biden, who is due to take office on Jan. 20, said he hoped the Republican-dominated Senate would give a prompt hearing to his nominees.</p>.<p>Blinken also stressed the need to work with allies, who Trump often made a target for public criticism as part of his "America First" approach to foreign policy.</p>.<p>"We can't solve all the world's problems alone" he said. "We need to be working with other countries, we need their cooperation, we need their partnership."</p>.<p>Thomas-Greenfield added: "I want to say to you: America is back. Multilateralism is back. Diplomacy is back."</p>