Joe Biden calls for stable US-China relationship during south-east Asia tour

The US president’s remarks came after after meet­ing in Viet­nam with Com­mu­nist par­ty offi­cial to secure glob­al sup­ply chain Joe Biden’s nation­al secu­ri­ty tour of south-east Asia reached Hanoi, Viet­nam, on Sun­day, where the pres­i­dent called for sta­bil­i­ty in the US-Chi­­na rela­tion­ship against an increas­ing­ly com­plex diplo­mat­ic pic­ture in the region for his coun­try. “I don’t…

Joe Biden’s advisers say he doesn’t want to drag Pacific allies into ‘headlong clash’ between US and China

Senior White House offi­cial says pres­i­dent hears region’s con­cerns and ‘does not want con­flict’ with Chi­na Joe Biden’s senior advis­ers have acknowl­edged coun­tries in the Indo-Pacif­ic don’t want to be “tram­pled by a head­long clash” between the US and Chi­na. In a webi­nar with an Aus­tralian audi­ence on Fri­day, senior White House nation­al secu­ri­ty coun­cil (NSC) officials…

USAID Chief to Congress: Foreign Aid Key in Countering Chinese, Russian Influence

A top Repub­li­can law­mak­er said Wednes­day the fund­ing pri­or­i­ties for the U.S. Agency for Inter­na­tion­al Devel­op­ment (USAID) do not go far enough in address­ing the threat posed by the Chi­nese Com­mu­nist Par­ty (CCP). The Biden admin­is­tra­tion has request­ed $32 bil­lion in for­eign assis­tance for USAID — $3 bil­lion more than the amount appro­pri­at­ed by Congress…

Background to a crisis: In Sudan, the stakes are high for the whole of Africa 

A tur­bu­lent tran­si­tion to civil­ian rule has been under­way in Sudan since the ouster of for­mer Pres­i­dent Omar Has­san El-Bashir in April 2019. The civil­ian-led tran­si­tion­al Gov­ern­ment put in place lat­er that year, through a pow­er-shar­ing agree­ment between mil­i­tary and civil­ian lead­ers, was top­pled by a mil­i­tary coup in Octo­ber 2021.