Good morning. Welcome to Axios today. It's Friday, December 10th. I'm Nyla Budu. Here's

what you need to know today. The U.S. starts denying some Afghan immigrant applications,

plus how AI could end foreign language subtitles. But first, Biden versus China and Russia is

today's one big thing.

On Fridays, we often wrap up U.S. politics. But this week, we're diving into foreign policy

because this week has been all about President Biden taking on Russia and China. The President

had a two-hour long call with Vladimir Putin about Ukraine. Earlier in the week, the U.S. announced

a diplomatic boycott of the Winter Olympics in China. And this is all against the backdrop

of President Biden's summit for democracy this week. Axios World Editor, Dave Loller,

is going to wrap all of this up for us. Hey, Dave.

Hi, Nyla.

Today's day two of President Biden's Democracy Summit that's an event with global leaders

intended to strengthen democracies around the world. And I know one of the President's goals

here is to bring democracies together to band together against China. How has this helped?

President Biden kicked off the summit by acknowledging the issues that the United States has with

our own democracy and said this was about basically getting like-minded people together to talk

about how to bolster democracy around the world. It's very difficult to get 100 countries together

and come to some kind of conclusion, but President Biden is talking about this as the beginning

of a conversation that will continue throughout his term.

And how does this coincide with the U.S. strategy on China?

It's in some ways quite difficult because do you confront countries that are very important

to the China challenge about their democracies at home? India is a country where there's lots

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