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Representatives of the United States of America and the Republic of Palau convened in Koror, Palau, last June 21-22 for bilateral economic consultations as called for under the agreement between the U.S. and Palau governments following the Compact of Free Association Section 432 Review, signed by the United States and Palau in 2010.

A long-term U.S-China strategy requires guardrails, preventing competition from spiraling into collision. 

President Donald Trump will arrive in India next week, his first visit to Asia’s democratic heavyweight and a lynchpin of the administration’s Indo-Pacific Strategy. It’s now clear the president won’t leave Delhi with a modest trade deal that’s been the subject of years of contentious negotiations but there will plenty of other takeaways, including some U.S. defense sales and a rousing reception in the world’s largest cricket stadium. President Trump has an avowed affinity for size a...

National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan has held talks with his Saudi, UAE, and Indian counterparts In a first engagement of its kind, US

On February 24th Air Force One touched down in India, marking President Donald Trump’s first trip to one of the pillars of America’s Indo-Pacific Strategy. State visits offer a unique opportunity to take stock of a relationship and the India-U.S. strategic partnership proved to be in good health. However, the modest expectations surrounding the visit, and an outbreak of violence in the Indian capital during the president’s stay, ensured some of the symbolic and substantive progress made wa...

National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan has held talks with his Saudi, UAE, and Indian counterparts In a first engagement of its kind, US

Analysts have marked the rise of China due to its diplomatic triumph in the Middle East, its growing cosiness with Russia and the downfall of the US as a significant global player due to the aspects...

Foreign policy refuses to yield to the U.S. political calendar, and so, with Election Day looming in the U.S., this week the secretaries of defense and state escaped the Beltway for a whirlwind tour of the Indo-Pacific. Their trip included stops at three key island states that straddle the world’s superhighways of maritime trade: the Maldives, Sri Lanka, and Indonesia.

British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly MP has travelled to Japan for a G7 foreign ministers’ summit, and arrived bearing manga.

Foreign secretary says ‘free and open Indo-Pacific’ is ‘critical to UK’ and releases manga-style cartoons to mark his visit