Biden Aides To Hold First Talks With China, Press Concerns By Shaun TANDON
03/11/21 AT 2:18 AM
US President Joe Biden s top aides will hold their first talks with China next week in Alaska, after Secretary of State Antony Blinken vowed Wednesday to seek tangible outcomes from meeting with the nation he has called the greatest threat.
In a sign of Biden s strategy to rally allies as a bulwark to China, Blinken will first travel to Japan and South Korea with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, who separately will head onward to India.
Blinken will then join Biden s national security advisor, Jake Sullivan, in Anchorage on March 18 with their Chinese counterparts Wang Yi and Yang Jiechi.
The first Quad summit between the leaders of Australia, India, Japan and the United States on Friday is likely to come out with something on coronavirus vaccine, a top American diplomat indicated Wednesday.
Resignation comes as pro-regime Dems scramble to respond to crisis Ethiopian soldiers in Tigray / Getty Images Jack Beyrer • March 10, 2021 5:30 pm
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Ethiopia s deputy ambassador to the United States resigned on Wednesday, citing his country s continued genocide in the Tigray region.
Longtime diplomat Berhane Kidanemariam announced his resignation from the post of deputy chief of mission for Ethiopia in Washington, D.C., due to Ethiopian prime minister Abiy Ahmed s genocidal practices in Tigray. Kidanemariam said that his country has pursued a dark and disturbing route by silencing political differences through military and extrajudicial force. I have loved serving as a diplomat for my country but I cannot do so at the expense of my values, and certainly not at the expense of my people, Kidanemariam said. There is a cost to acting on one s principles, but there is a bigger cost to abandoning them. I resign from my post in protest of the genocidal war in Tigray
The first Quad summit between the leaders of Australia, India, Japan and the United States on Friday is likely to come out with something on coronavirus vaccine, a top American diplomat indicated Wednesday.
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