Biden's eulogy to his alliance-building efforts reveals how out of touch he was with reality

In his swan-song speech on foreign policy on Monday, US President Joe Biden's audience was actually his successor that will take office in less than a week.

The more the outgoing US president tries to brag about how the United States has become stronger thanks to his alliance-building policy, aimed at outcompeting China, the less confidence he is showing in his Republican successor carrying that baton onwards.

After Donald Trump's first term in office, anyone in Biden's position would be able to boast of enhancing relations with the US' allies, just by engaging with them as such. But Biden has done more than that. By remodeling and misleading the US alliance network, he has produced an unnecessary and unwelcome blast from the past by reviving bloc confrontation.