US President Joe Biden holds a virtual meeting with business leaders and state governors to discuss supply chain issues, particularly semiconductor chips, on the White House campus in Washington , U.S. March 9, 2022. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst Join now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register WASHINGTON, March 10 (Reuters) – …
Read More »Maduro expresses interest in better relations between Venezuela and the United States
But he appeared to indicate he was ready to accede to U.S. demands to resume negotiations with adversaries as the first building block for any relief from U.S. sanctions that have dogged the OPEC nation for years. “We agreed to work on a program for the future, matters of interest,” …
Read More »JCPOA may be flat, but there’s still hope to rekindle US-Iran relations
As US-Iranian relations continue to be adversarial after Trump, any path to reconciliation should involve the US administration engaging directly with and listening to the general Iranian public, writes Kourosh Ziabari. A portrait of U.S. President Joe Biden is taped to a balloon during a ceremony marking the anniversary of …
Read More »President Biden announces 3 key nominees
WASHINGTON – Today, President Joe Biden announced his intention to name the following leaders to serve as key leaders in his administration: Reuben Brigety, candidate for the post of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Republic of South Africa MaryKay Carlson, candidate for the position of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary …
Read More »US pledges to put Russia on the defensive at UN Security Council
FILE In this photo released by the State Duma, the press service of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov addresses the State Duma, the lower house of parliament in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, January 26, 2022 Lavrov said the US response contained some elements that …
Read More »Rights groups warn Biden against blacklisting Yemen’s Houthis | Joe Biden News
Washington D.C.- When the Biden administration stripped Yemen’s Houthi rebels of the “terrorist” group label last February, it cited the potentially “devastating” effects the designation would have on Yemeni civilians’ access to lifesaving humanitarian aid. But less than a year later, President Joe Biden said the group’s re-naming was “under …
Read More »China hits out at Japan and US after Biden, Kishida discuss Beijing in video meeting
China has denounced talks between US President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Beijing with Washington and Tokyo, raising concerns about “predatory” moves by the mainland. As Prime Minister Kishida and President Biden discussed China in a virtual meeting, the Chinese Embassy in Japan said on Saturday …
Read More »Joe Biden has a communication problem. Jen Psaki does not help
Photo by Yash Mori/White House/Alamy WASHINGTON, DC – On December 6, Jen Psaki, the White House press secretary, stood on the podium in front of the press corps and scoffed at the idea of sending Covid tests directly to the people’s homes. NPR’s Mara Liasson asked why rapid tests were …
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Letter from the editor BY SHAWN DORMAN Welcome to this packed double edition of The Foreign Service Journal to start the new year. In addition to our regular programming, this issue features an exclusive interview with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, as well as a first-person account from Moscow Signal, …
Read More »UAE tells US it will suspend F-35 talks amid Huawei malaise
DUBAI / WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United Arab Emirates have informed the United States it will suspend talks to acquire F-35 fighter jets, a United Arab Emirates official said on Tuesday as part of a $ 23 billion deal that also includes drones and other ammunition. The sale of 50 …
Read More »Omicron cases in US set to increase, officials say
Several dozen cases of the new Omicron variant of the coronavirus have been identified in the United States, a number that “is likely to increase,” said Dr. Rochelle P. Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, on Sunday. on ABC’s “This Week” show. At least 17 states …
Read More »Clinton’s Crypto Claims in Russia – Real Alarmists or “Red Threat”?
Neither the author, Tim Fries, nor this website, The Tokenist, provide financial advice. Please review our website policy before making any financial decisions. In recent talks, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton claimed that an increase in the use of Bitcoin would take power away from the United States and …
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Luz Rivas remembers seeing the word on her mother’s residence permit when she was a child: âforeignerâ. In harsh government terms, this meant that her mother was not yet a citizen of the United States. But for his young daughter, the word had a more personal meaning. Even if they …
Read More »What the US can learn from the UK about wind power
EAGLESHAM, Scotland – As President Joe Biden’s administration puts its forces in the service of wind power with plans to develop large-scale wind farms along the entire coastline of the United States, the administration can examine how Europe’s windiest nation is transforming its energy grid by example of how to …
Read More »Washington plans to increase Japan’s defense budget after election
NEW YORK – Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s strong coalition victory in Sunday’s legislative elections has been hailed in Washington as a sign of continuity. But attention is quickly shifting to the size of Japan’s defense budget, which the ruling Liberal Democratic Party has pledged to increase. As US President Joe …
Read More »China steps up military pressure on Taiwan
IIT WAS A deliberate provocation, patriotically timed. On October 1, the country’s national holiday, China flew 38 planes, including fighter jets and bombers, to Taiwan (one guy, the J-16, is shown). They entered the island’s air defense identification area (ADIZ), a buffer region where intrusions often trigger military alerts. It …
Read More »Tensions escalate as Chinese flights near Taiwan escalate
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) – With a record number of military flights near Taiwan over the past week, China has shown new military intensity and sophistication as it intensifies its harassment of the island which it claims as its own and affirms its territorial ambitions in the region. The Chinese People’s …
Read More »Biden and Xi explore ‘recoupling’ as advisers meet in Zurich
NEW YORK – After years of latent tensions between the United States and China, the White House announced on Tuesday that President Joe Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan will travel to Switzerland to meet with senior Chinese diplomat Yang Jiechi, a sign that the two sides are looking to …
Read More »How Haiti Was Forced To Pay Reparations For Freedom: Planet Money: NPR
Baron de Mackau of France presenting demands to Jean-Pierre Boyer, President of Haiti, in 1825 Wikipedia hide caption toggle legend Wikipedia Baron de Mackau of France presenting demands to Jean-Pierre Boyer, President of Haiti, in 1825 Wikipedia In recent weeks, thousands of refugees from Haiti have arrived at the US-Mexico …
Read More »Seoul observes allies in US corrals to counter China
Intensifying competition between the United States and China is forcing South Korea, a crucial American ally that has long sought to maintain cordial relations with Beijing, to face a delicate choice. The Aukus Security Pact between the US, UK and Australia, and last month’s summit of the Quad Group of …
Read More »Cal Thomas: Invisible and stealthy forces to destroy America
There are forces that want to destroy America. Some of them are visible and some are stealthy. Visible forces include terrorists and some nation states like Iran. Radical Islamic preachers shout âDeath to Americaâ in their sermons, encouraging martyrdom through suicide bombings. September 11 was their crowning achievement so far. …
Read More »Oil states brace for Biden methane rule
The Biden administration is set to launch a major crackdown on oil and gas methane emissions in the coming weeks, but concerns are emerging about how the rule could affect small operators and to what extent the country’s major oil and gas-producing states could fight the plan. . Smaller oil …
Read More »United States disadvantaged in race to recruit cybersecurity professionals | Nation
CHICAGO (AP) – Austin Moody wanted to apply his cybersecurity skills in his home state of Michigan by teaming up with state police investigators to analyze evidence and track down criminals. But the recent graduate put the idea aside after learning that an unpaid internship was his only way to …
Read More »NATION / WORLD BRIEFS September 18, 2021 | Local News
FDA Advisory Board Rejects Widespread Booster Injections From Pfizer WASHINGTON – An influential federal advisory group overwhelmingly rejected a plan on Friday to offer Pfizer booster shots against COVID-19 to most Americans, dealing a blow to the Biden administration’s efforts to strengthen protection people in the midst of the highly …
Read More »Finding a new vocabulary for the old foreign policy
U.S. foreign policy has long focused more on the evocative vocabulary used to describe it than on the geopolitical reality it is meant to address. The vocabulary that politicians and the media use to define foreign policy is part of a web of artificially generated illusions that serve not so …
Read More »Afghanistan Crisis Live Updates | Collapse of Afghan economy a “gift for terrorists”, says UN chief
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has called for an injection of money into Afghanistan to avoid an economic collapse that would trigger a “catastrophic” situation for the Afghan people and be a “gift to terrorist groups”. His remarks come after his special envoy for Afghanistan, Deborah Lyons, warned the Security …
Read More »China cautiously optimistic about new US ambassador
Editor’s Note: Yuan Sha is an assistant researcher in the American Studies Department of the China Institute of International Studies. A former Columbia University Fulbright Fellow, she holds a PhD in International Politics from the China University of Foreign Affairs. Yuan has published several articles on Sino-US security relations in …
Read More »What will happen to CMS’s policy to cover breakthrough medical devices?
After the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services pushed back when they’ll start covering certain “breakthrough” medical devices, healthcare companies might be wondering what’s next. Two former executives from CMS and the Food and Drug Administration shared their thoughts on HIMSS Digital. The policy would ensure that Medicare would cover …
Read More »US-Chinese rivalry hangs over Haiti one month after president’s assassination
WASHINGTON / MEXICO CITY – The assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise a month ago on Saturday has potential repercussions as far away as China, which has played a diplomatic chess game of influence with the United States on the nation impoverished Caribbean woman. Beijing has suspended coronavirus vaccines and …
Read More »China responds by sanctioning former US Secretary of Commerce Ross and others
US Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross speaks during the third annual US-Qatar Strategic Dialogue at the State Department in Washington, United States, September 14, 2020. REUTERS / Erin Scott / Pool / File Photo BEIJING / WASHINGTON, July 23 (Reuters) – China on Friday announced that it has imposed counter-sanctions …
Read More »Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya on the future of Belarus and its place in it
Wed Jul 21, 2021 Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya on the future of Belarus and its place in it Ukraine Alert through Doug Klain “I’m not asking [the United States] to support me I ask [it] to support democratic values, âsaid Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, leader of the democratic opposition in Belarus, during her first …
Read More »Afghan turmoil intensifies as US withdrawal hits 95%
NEW YORK – It was a grueling weekend for Zalmay Khalilzad. The 70-year-old leading man in the Biden administration for the stabilization of Afghanistan after the US withdrawal had seen his efforts of several months almost bear fruit. The peace process between the Taliban and the Afghan government was back …
Read More »Emirates News Agency – United States is UAE’s “most important and long-lasting strategic partner”: Dr Anwar Gargash
WASHINGTON, DC, July 18, 2021 (WAM) – At the end of a week-long visit to Washington, DC, Dr Anwar Gargash, diplomatic adviser to President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, called the relationship UAE-US as strong as it has ever been and noted that the US is the …
Read More »Shaheen statement in response to the latest crackdown on Belarusian media by the Lukashenka regime
July 16, 2021 (Washington, DC) – US Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC) and chair of the Europe and Regional Security Cooperation SFRC sub-committee, issued the following statement in response to reports that the Belarusian authorities raided the office of Radio Free Europe …
Read More »Turkey in precarious foreign policy balancing law 5 years after tested coup attempt
The coup attempt in 2016 fueled mistrust of Turkey’s western allies at the same time as Russia became a potential ally Faced with a decline in the economy and its poll numbers, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is currently trying to reconnect with Washington, five years after his government and …
Read More »Fact Check: White House National Security Adviser Misleadingly Describes Pipeline Company As ‘Not Russian’
Bash told Sullivan that President Joe Biden had “decided not to impose sanctions” on the pipeline. After Bash cited a Republican criticism of Biden’s handling of the problem, she asked, “Why are you giving in to Russia on this pipeline?” Sullivan correctly replied that Biden has “sanctioned several Russian entities“Regarding …
Read More »Local landowners and Spire continue remediation efforts Communication issues – WLDS
Failure to communicate between a pipeline company and landowners has led to a federal lawsuit over access to easements. Spire STL Pipeline has filed for a temporary injunction to access a rural road in Greene County to access land owned by Betty Ann Jefferson Trust, Philip and Zena Brown and …
Read More »U.S. Vice President Harris slams migration after first international trip
WASHINGTON: Returning Wednesday June 9 from her first international mission as U.S. Vice President, Kamala Harris was criticized by Republican critics accusing her of not taking the migration crisis seriously enough, but also by frustrated vocal progressives by border policy. The two-sided stacking reflects the protracted and difficult nature of …
Read More »Harris’ Message to Migrants: “Don’t Come, Don’t Come” | Migration news
US Vice President Kamala Harris is on a three-day trip to Central America, with the aim of stemming the flow of migrants to the United States. United States Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday kicked off a three-day diplomatic trip to the Northern Triangle, focused on stemming migration to the …
Read More »Senator Menendez Presents Political Strategy for Middle East Relations and Reaffirms Support for Israel | JNS
Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Robert Menendez (DN.J.) said on Thursday that relations between the United States and Israel were more important than anyone the day after it became clear that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would probably not continue in his post. Menendez spoke in a videotaped introduction during the …
Read More »European Union bans flights over Belarusian airspace: NPR
A Ryanair plane carrying opposition figure Roman Protasevich has been diverted to Minsk, Belarus, after a bomb threat. Protasevich, who ran a channel on a messaging app used to stage protests against authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko, was arrested after the plane landed. Mindaugas Kulbis / AP hide caption toggle legend …
Read More »White House Partners With Black Hair Salons For Vaccinations | national news
The White House on Wednesday announced a new partnership to boost vaccination rates by recruiting black barbershops – part of a major initiative that also includes free child care and extended pharmacy hours to facilitate inoculations. The initiatives come a month before the Independence Day deadline that President Joe Biden …
Read More »Lessons from Pakistan: how to win friends, influence allies, and then waste it all
It is widely accepted that the pursuit of “strategic autonomy” is a unique attribute of Indian foreign policy. The point, however, is that all countries, large or small, try to maximize their room for maneuver within the constraints in which they find themselves. Take the case of Pakistan. During the …
Read More »Covid has reinvented the idea of collective security
Written by Pavan Chaurasia Our collective wisdom works through a process that has three stages: learn, unlearn and relearn. These three pillars of the knowledge ecosystem were previously considered to be exclusively reserved for the social science field, where a concept was first understood (learned), then vehemently debated (unlearned), and …
Read More »For the Biden administration, the Northern Triangle poses a migratory trilemma
May 29, 2021 HANNOUNCE THE The protest was not on the Mexican side of the border, it could have been mistaken for a rally for Joe Biden. Migrants wore white T– shirts featuring the presidential campaign logo and the message âBiden Please Let Us Inâ. Critics say the president’s folkloric …
Read More »New England Patriots plane used to send vaccine to Chinese diplomacy flight
MIAMI – The New England Patriots team plane delivered 500,000 Chinese-made COVID-19 vaccines to El Salvador – and inadvertently got into a grueling geopolitical struggle for influence in Latin America. The “Pats Plane” was greeted on its arrival in San Salvador early Wednesday, just after midnight, by China’s top diplomat …
Read More »Use all tools to end the blockade of Yemen by the Saudi coalition
“Yemen was already the poorest country in the Middle East before the war, but the conflict and the resulting blockade tactics made the situation exponentially worse.” “The United States must make it clear that these cruel and senseless blockade tactics endanger millions of innocent Yemenis and are counterproductive to peace.” …
Read More »Colonial Pipeline Cyber Attack Highlights Vulnerability of National Energy Sector – Energy and Natural Resources
United States: Colonial pipeline cyberattack highlights vulnerability of country’s energy sector May 17, 2021 Foley Hoag LLP To print this article, simply register or connect to Mondaq.com. This article follows up on our recent discussion of the cyberattack that took the 5,500-mile Colonial Pipeline offline last week and the growing …
Read More »Calls on the rise for Gaza-Israel ceasefire and increased US efforts
UN Security Council diplomats and Muslim foreign ministers called emergency meetings over the weekend to demand an end to civilian bloodshed as Israeli warplanes carried out the attacks. deadliest in nearly a week of Hamas rocket barrages and Israeli airstrikes. President Joe Biden has given no sign of escalating public …
Read More »US-China relations should remain on an unstable trajectory: ex-ambassador, Asia News & Top Stories
ISLAMABAD (DAWN / ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – Dr Henry Kissinger warns that turbulent relations between the United States and China are bearing the seeds of war. President Joe Biden describes the ties between the two as “extreme competition” and not as conflict. The latest US intelligence report makes China the …
Read More »A pitch for sports diplomacy
By Tommy Goodman Two years ago, in a private restaurant (“paladar”) in Havana, owner Julio noticed the baseball equipment worn by our group in the United States. Caribbean Education and Baseball Foundation (CEBF) and energetically launched an invitation to play ball with its staff in a “palatal league”. And just …
Read More »Student loan debt must be canceled in full for everyone
Stefani Reynold / Getty 1.6 USD trillion. How much money 45 million Americans collectively have student loan debt. Think about it – how many people do you know who are still paying off their loans? Chances are you and a bunch of your friends and family are still repay the …
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