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Jakarta (AFP) - The US and European Union's top diplomats on Friday assailed Russia's foreign minister as being negative and unconstructive in a rare sit-down appearance with him at a Southeast Asian gathering in Jakarta. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken seized on the two days of meetings to hold fresh talks with China on managing tensions, even as he sought to rally Southeast Asian nations against "coercion" by Beijing. Blinken made no such effort to meet Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who spoke behind closed doors at a session that brought in global powers. Lavrov's involvement ...
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Nusa Dua (Indonesia) (AFP) - US President Joe Biden arrived in Indonesia's Bali on Sunday for a summit of the world's 20 largest economies and a high-stakes meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. The US leader said he expects to establish "red lines" in Washington's fraught relations with Beijing in his first face-to-face talks as president with Xi. The superpower sit-down will come on the sidelines of the G20 summit from Monday, the biggest gathering by the group since the Covid-19 pandemic began. Biden said he was going into the discussions with Xi "stronger", after his Democratic Party's u...
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Phnom Penh (AFP) - Southeast Asian regional bloc ASEAN gained a surprise new member from the other side of the world Saturday -- at least for an instant, courtesy of a verbal slip by US President Joe Biden. "I want to thank the prime minister for Colombia's leadership as ASEAN chair," Biden said as he opened talks with regional leaders in Phnom Penh chaired by Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen. South America's Colombia seems to be on the US president's mind, because he made the same mistake as he set out from the White House for his long trip to Asia. He told reporters he was "heading over to C...
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Phnom Penh (AFP) - US President Joe Biden returns to the world stage with a spring in his step after midterm elections he sees proving that, in the global contest between democracy and autocracy, good guys don't always come last. Biden is scheduled to leave Washington on Thursday for the COP27 climate summit in Egypt the next day, an ASEAN regional summit in Cambodia at the weekend and the gathering of G20 major economic powers in Indonesia next week. The tense midterms campaign had left the world wondering which Biden would show up. Would it be the "America is back" champion, passionately arg...
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Washington (AFP) - President Joe Biden on Thursday welcomed Southeast Asian leaders to Washington with promises to support clean energy and maritime security, hoping to showcase a US commitment as China makes wide inroads. Top leaders from eight of the 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) flew to Washington for the two-day summit, which opened with a closed-door White House dinner of thyme poached chicken and vanilla ice cream. The Biden administration, which took office describing China as the top international challenger, is eager to prove it is still prioritizing...
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