The United States wants to work with friendly and like-minded countries—so who are they?
On a host of issues ranging from green energy to security in the Asia/Pacific and cybersecurity, the Biden administration makes frequent mention of “friendly” and “like-minded” countries as preferred partners for international collaboration. The term “friend-shoring” was used by US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen in April 2022 to describe re-orienting supply chains through countries “we know we can count on.” US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo has said “When you talk about friend-shoring, we have to find places that share our values, that play by the rules, that treat workers fairly, that…