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Biden's decrees vault America back onto the global stage, but a whiplashed world wonders for how long CNN 1/24/2021 By Laura Smith-Spark, CNN © JIM WATSON/AFP/AFP/Getty Images TOPSHOT - US President Joe Biden sits in the Oval Office as he signs a series of orders at the White House in Washington, DC, after being sworn in at the US Capitol on January 20, 2021. - US President Joe Biden signed a raft of executive orders to launch his administration, including a decision to rejoin the Paris climate accord. The orders were aimed at reversing decisions by his predecessor, rever...

Biden’s decrees vault America back onto the global stage. A whiplashed world wonders for how long Within hours of taking office, US President Joe Biden set to work signing a blizzard of executive orders, memorandums and directives to agencies, ranging from steps to combat the coronavirus to beginning the process of rejoining the Paris climate accord. To the outside world, the powers of a US president to make sweeping changes with a stroke of his or her pen can seem bewildering. Every four or eight years, an incoming leader can upend the policies of his predecessor and leave international al...