State of the Union 2023 kept foreign policy on back burner

President Joseph Biden’s State of the Union address on Tuesday focused on the bread-and-butter issues of jobs, infrastructure and health care. But as The World’s Sarah Birnbaum reports, the Ukraine war and the US-China relationship got a small section toward the end. 

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