WASHINGTON—The Biden administration is pressing its case for a new approach to global trade, arguing that America’s traditional reliance on promoting free trade pacts failed to anticipate China’s brass-knuckled brand of capitalism and the possibility a major power like Russia would go to war against one of its trading partners. In a speech Wednesday at […]
How to work with allies to reach the full potential of defense cooperation? How to break the barriers of export controls and information sharing to strengthen the allied defense industrial base and enhance preparedness for future conflicts? How to integrate deterrence and achieve the objectives of the National Defense Strategy? In a virtual conversation held […]
MANILA, Philippines—American forces and their allies in Asia are ready for battle after years of joint combat exercises, a United States general said Wednesday, adding that Russia’s setbacks in Ukraine should serve as a warning to potential Asian aggressors like China and North Korea. U.S. treaty allies like the Philippines, Japan and Australia, among others, […]
President Joe Biden downplayed concerns that the chaotic U.S. military withdrawal and ongoing evacuation in Afghanistan would damage his administration’s credibility around the world. “I have seen no question of our credibility from our allies around the world,” Biden told reporters during a Friday press conference, adding that the “exact opposite” has happened. Biden added […]
WASHINGTON—President Joe Biden’s meeting with leaders of the Group of Seven leading industrial economies in an English seaside village this week will usher in a new focus on rallying U.S. allies against common adversaries—the COVID-19 pandemic, Russia, and China. New COVID-19 variants and rising death tolls in some countries will loom large during the gathering […]
WASHINGTON—The United States stands with Honduras and condemns the “cynical use” of COVID-19 vaccines for political purposes, the State Department said, after Taiwan blasted China for seeking to use vaccines to make diplomatic inroads with one of Taipei’s allies. Honduras, among a small number of Latin American countries to maintain diplomatic ties with Taiwan, has […]
AFL, a group led by a former Trump adviser, has criticized a proposed grant priority by the Biden administration seeking to promote controversial racial concepts in the classroom.
The United States and its allies are putting sanctions on certain Chinese officials. These individuals allegedly have links to what the United States calls a genocidal campaign against the Uyghurs in China’s western Xinjiang region.
NATO sending troops to Poland, Baltic states Faced with an ever-more belligerent and unpredictable Russia, NATO allies are advancing with plans to deploy thousands of troops and military equipment to the Baltics and Poland. In recent weeks alone, Russia has moved battleships toward the Mediterranean and Baltic Seas, shifted nuclear-capable missile-launchers into its Kaliningrad enclave […]
