Contender for the post of United Kingdom's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, has vowed a tough stance against China whom he said was the "number one threat" to domestic and global security. Reportedly, this comes after his rival Liz Truss accused him of being weak on China and Russia.
US Secretary Antony Blinken said that the Russian missile attack on the Ukrainian Black Sea port of Odessa casts severe doubt on the reliability of Russia’s commitment to the grain deal and weakens the work of the UN, Turkey, and Ukraine to transport crucial supplies to the world markets. In other news, as per recent reports, to prevent the companies from being delisted by American regulators, Chinese officials are planning to put together a system of complex compliance with procedures.
Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), blamed ‘dumb bets’ made by Sri Lanka on China for the country’s current economic crisis. Since Sri Lanka ran out of foreign currency to import necessities, the South Asia Island has experienced log blackout, food, and fuel shortages, and soaring prices. In other news, US President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping are scheduled to speak in the next 10 days. Currently, there is a lot of friction between the US and China particularly related to Taiwan.
US President Joe Biden failed to win oil and security commitments from the Gulf leaders during the Arab Summit in Jeddah. His visit was primarily intended to ask the leaders if the oil-rich Gulf to pump more oil, which would lower gas prices in the US. In other news, Iran imposed sanctions on 61 Americans including former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who had been sanctioned for supporting the Iranian dissident group, Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK).
Ripudaman Singh Malik, the acquitted suspect in the 1985 Air India bombings in which 331 people died was shot dead in Canada. In other news, Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro has claimed that he knows how to end the Russia-Ukraine conflict, and that he will be sharing the information with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
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