Biden Suggests to UK’s Johnson That Allies Should Have a Plan to Rival China’s Belt and Road

Biden Suggests to UK’s Johnson That Allies Should Have a Plan to Rival China’s Belt and Road
President Joe Biden speaks to reporters as he holds his first formal news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, on March 25, 2021. Leah Millis/Reuters
|Updated:

NEW CASTLE, Del.—U.S. President Joe Biden said he suggested to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in a phone call on Friday that democratic countries should have an infrastructure plan to rival China’s Belt and Road initiative.

“I suggested we should have, essentially, a similar initiative, pulling from the democratic states, helping those communities around the world that, in fact, need help,” Biden told reporters.