President Biden is heading to India on Thursday for the G20 summit, the place he’ll pitch the message that America’s financial system is robust and search to strengthen or navigate ties between the world’s largest economies. The president’s journey is formally a go after he examined adverse for COVID-19 on Thursday. 

It wasn’t sure that Mr. Biden would be capable of make the journey, after first girl Jill Biden tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday. The White House has stated all week that the president has since taken a number of COVID-19 checks, all of which have been adverse to date. As of Wednesday afternoon, he wasn’t experiencing any signs, in keeping with White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. 

Mr. Biden will put on a masks indoors for 10 days following publicity, and can take a look at “regularly,” Jean-Pierre informed reporters Wednesday. The White House has not supplied any contingency plans if the president checks constructive en path to or in India. 

In India, the president is predicted to argue the U.S. financial system — significantly its unemployment price — is robust after the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Mr. Biden can also be anticipated to push for extra worldwide improvement in infrastructure in creating nations, to counter China’s affect in Africa and across the globe, as CBS News chief White House correspondent Nancy Cordes reviews. Chinese President Xi Jinping shouldn’t be anticipated to attend the summit, and it isn’t clear when Xi and Mr. Biden will meet subsequent. 

The president can even proceed his efforts to rally different nations round Ukraine, whilst Russia and China are G20 members. The summit comes after Russia launched deadly air strikes on Kyiv shortly earlier than Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s arrival in Ukraine’s capital. 

“These brutal Russian attacks underscore the importance of continuing to support the people of Ukraine as they defend their territory against unprovoked, unjustified Russian aggression,” Jean-Pierre stated Wednesday.

While in Kyiv, Blinken introduced one other $1 billion assist package deal for Ukraine, one thing Mr. Biden is more likely to spotlight as nicely.

The G20 is a chance for Mr. Biden to satisfy one-on-one with different world leaders and handle country-to-country financial relations, in addition to broader world objectives. The U.S. is pushing for the normalization of relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia, key gamers within the Middle East. 

The summit in India can also be a political alternative for Mr. Biden, whose approval scores are struggling. The Biden marketing campaign this week introduced a brand new advert highlighting the president’s management on the worldwide stage. The advert will run in battleground states on CBS’ “60 Minutes” whereas the president is on the G20 summit. 

The G20, which consists of 19 nations and the European Union, accounts for roughly 85% of the world’s Gross Domestic Product, or GDP. 

But the American financial story post-COVID-19 is not a glowing story for a lot of American households, in keeping with polling by CBS and others. The majority of Americans have a adverse view of the state of the financial system, largely due to inflation that is risen sooner than wages.