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How many foreign visits different presidents have made

Data: U.S. State Department Office of the Historian; Chart: Will Chase/Axios

President Biden leaves for the United Kingdom on Wednesday, kicking off his first foreign trip as president.

By the numbers: Presidents have made more stops in foreign nations in most recent administrations, though they dropped way off when Donald Trump was in office.


Biden is scheduled to meet with the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, attend the G7 summit and call on Queen Elizabeth while in the U.K., per Reuters.

  • He plans to travel to Belgium for EU and NATO meetings, and then to Switzerland to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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Scoop: Boxer to drop representation of Chinese surveillance firm

Former Sen. Barbara Boxer tells Axios she will de-register as a foreign agent for Hikvision, a Chinese surveillance firm accused of abetting the country’s mass internment of Uighur Muslims, after President-elect Joe Biden’s inaugural committee said it's refunding a donation from the California Democrat.

Driving the news: "My intent in agreeing to provide strategic advice to the company was based on my desire to help make them better in every way and preserve American jobs," Boxer said in a statement to Axios. "However, due to the intense response to my registration I have determined that my continued involvement has become a negative distraction for the effort so I will be de-registering."

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