Hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpur. Here's what's coming up.

We will repair our alliances and engage with the world once again not to meet

yesterday's challenges but today's and tomorrow's. As a new US president grapples with

powerful adversaries, I'm joined by the chair of the Senate Foreign

Relations Committee Senator Bob Menendez. Then, the Uyghur American lawyer who was

born in one of China's infamous detention camps, also ahead.

You want to take advantage because you think I've lost my marbles,

but I didn't.

Actor come director, Vigo Mortensonenson on his new film falling into dementia and why not bring together a community to write the history of the community

Telling the African American story with a chorus of black voices, award-winning historians

Dr Kishab Lane and Dr Ibrahim X Kandy join our Michelle Martin. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London. There's already

plenty of reaction overseas to President Biden's first major

foreign policy address from Washington. Allies welcome the America's

back slogan while the Kremlin called the Russian part aggressive.

Biden honed in on China as well,

where there's a fair amount of consensus

both in Congress and among European allies,

the president labeling Beijing

America's most serious strategic competitor.

We'll confront China's economic abuses.

Counter its aggressive coercive action to push back on China's attack on human rights,

intellectual property, and global governance.

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