カテゴリー: Biden administration
Chinese leader speaks with Jake Sullivan, who was making his first visit to Beijing as US national security adviserXi Jinping has spoken with the US national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, in a surprise meeting during the senior Biden aide’s three-da…
Russia, shunned from the world stage, and China, subject to new US tariffs, want to pivot further from the westHaving secured a mandate to extend his rule of Russia to three decades, Vladimir Putin is expected to travel to Beijing on Thursday on a stat…
While the US flounders in a conflict it did not foresee, emerging powers see a chance for new voices to join the top tableNot long ago a picture circulated from inside Gaza showing smoke billowing from the explosion of a US-supplied bomb, and discernib…
The Internationalists details how the president was determined to leave a country in which 2,324 US troops were killed since 2001Joe Biden is “privately defiant” that he made the right calls on the US withdrawal from Afghanistan in summer 2021, a new b…
Foreign ministry says US and China have ‘most important bilateral relationship in the world’ after leaders’ talksChina has praised the “warm” meeting between Xi Jinping and Joe Biden in California, in a marked shift of rhetoric after months of negotiat…
Announcement fuels hope rivals can use Apec summit as a chance to reduce tensionsChina and the US have pledged to work together more closely to fight global heating, declaring the climate crisis “one of the greatest challenges of our time”, hours befor…
Meeting in Delhi overshadowed by press freedom questions as US journalists kept awayJoe Biden took fresh steps on Friday to lure India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, into an alliance designed to contain China, at a bilateral meeting in Delhi where th…
The order – to be implemented next year – restricts investments in semiconductors and microelectronics, quantum tech and AIJoe Biden on Wednesday signed an executive order that will narrowly prohibit certain US investments in sensitive technology in Ch…
Formal signing to take place in Papua New Guinea next week when Joe Biden holds summit with Pacific leaders to emphasise commitment to regionThe US and Micronesia have agreed to renew their strategic pact known as Cofa, Joe Biden’s presidential envoy J…
Ferdinand Marcos Jr and Joe Biden are expected to discuss the security situation in the South China SeaThe president of the Philippines is meeting his US counterpart in Washington as the two countries draw closer together against what they say is growi…
Biden administration releases review saying president’s options were ‘severely constrained’ by decisions of predecessorThe US government has released a review of the chaotic 2021 troop withdrawal from Afghanistan which largely lays the blame on Donald …
More than 78,000 Afghan refugees relocated to the US as part of Operation Allies Welcome, but few have gained permanent statusOn the day he turned 24 earlier this month, Asmatullah checked the status of his asylum request online, hoping that an approva…
Witnesses described the chaos and panic of the 2021 US departure during the Republican inquiry, which had people in tears at times Military members and veterans of the Afghanistan war offered harrowing eyewitness testimony of the chaotic and deadly wit…
Improving situation in China prompts decision, say news reports quoting Biden administration officialsThe US is preparing to relax Covid-19 testing restrictions for travellers from China as soon as Friday, according to two people familiar with the deci…
Updated finding a departure from previous studies on how the virus emerged and comes with ‘low confidence’The virus which drove the Covid-19 pandemic most likely emerged from a laboratory leak but not as part of a weapons program, according to an updat…