The diplomatic overtures by US President Joe Biden on his debut turn on
the global stage indicate that his administration is pushing a democratic
values-driven foreign-policy strategy that it hopes can make
multilateralism work again. But, argues Alejandro Reyes of the Asia Global
Institute, emphasizing values as a dividing line and asserting that Beijing does
not share them could hamper any efforts to tackle effectively global problems
that require Chinese participation and contribution to address.