By Ash Jain Following US President Joe Biden’s speech in Warsaw last week, the media largely focused on his offhand comments on whether Russian President Vladimir Putin should remain in power. In doing so, they overlooked the deeper strategic significance of Biden’s remarks about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Biden described the brazen assault not only as a threat to […]
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U.S. President Joe Biden convenes a virtual summit with leaders from democratic nations at the State Department’s Summit for Democracy, at the White House, in Washington, U.S. December 9, U.S. President Joe Biden has warned of a “backward slide” in rights and democracy around the globe as he opened a virtual summit with representatives from […]
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Nigeria joined the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies (OPEC+) to rebuff pressures from the United States government to ramp up the global oil supply. On Thursday, OPEC+ decided to stick to plans to increase the global oil supply by 400,000 barrels per day by December. Speaking at the 21st OPEC and non-OPEC ministerial meeting, […]
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Politico.com: The move is a compromise that may disappoint some activists but nonetheless is arguably more human-rights-friendly than in the past. The Biden administration has decided it will hold back some — but not most — of $300 million in conditioned military aid to Egypt over human rights concerns, a U.S. official said late Monday. […]
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Analysts hailed the memo’s designation of corruption as a national security threat and its deadline for action. By Jacqueline Feldscher The Biden administration is directing agencies to come up with a plan by December to boost their fight against corruption, in a memo released Thursday. Analysts are optimistic that the national security study memo, the […]
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President Joe Biden on Friday proposed a $6 trillion budget to “reimagine” the US economy and stave off Chinese competition, though driving the United States into record debt — and with Congress first needing to give approval. Announcing the proposed spending, Biden said a post-pandemic United States “cannot afford to simply return to the way […]
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The US Government dispatched a top State Department diplomat to the Middle East “immediately” to try to de-escalate the deadly conflict between Israel and Hamas, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced Wednesday. President Joe Biden faces growing pressure to help stem the violence and heightened international alarm over the spiraling death toll. The United Nations’ special coordinator for […]
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President Biden has invited 40 world leaders to the Leaders Summit on Climate he will host on April 22 and 23. The virtual Leaders Summit will be live streamed for public viewing. President Biden took action his first day in office to return the United States to the Paris Agreement. Days later, on January 27, […]
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By Patrick W. Quirk The Biden administration’s initial foreign policy priorities are coming into focus: combating climate change, competing with China, and reversing the spread of authoritarianism, all through the prism of U.S. domestic renewal. As the White House puts pen to paper on its first National Security Strategy (NSS), these themes will feature prominently. […]
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