President Biden begins a week-long series of meetings with foreign counterparts during which he will cast the U.S. as a solid and reliable friend of Asian leaders who are unnerved by North Korea’s nuclear program and China’s influence in the region.
In brief remarks at the start of a conference of Southeast Asian nations, Biden made clear that he also wants to use the summit to rally regional allies and pressure Russian President Vladimir Putin to end“Together we will tackle the biggest issues of our time, from climate to health security, defend against the significant threats to rule-based order and to threats to the rule of law,” Biden said at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit.
On Sunday, Biden will meet jointly with two valued allies, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol. They are expected to discuss the nuclear threat from North Korea, whose repeated missile tests have sent residents in both countries scurrying toBiden will then fly to Bali, Indonesia, for a summit of the G-20, made up of 19 nations and the European Union, which together comprise around 80 percent of the global economy.
Briefing reporters on Air Force One as the president flew to Cambodia from a climate change conference in Egypt, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said that Biden is “going to tell President Xi his perspective, which is that North Korea represents a threat not just to the United States, not just to [South Korea] and Japan, but to peace and stability across the entire region."
Biden and Xi are both approaching the meeting from positions of relative strength. At a ruling Communist Party meeting last month, Xi gained for himself aAs for Biden, with election officials still in the process of tallying votes, it’s still unclear whether Republicans or Democrats will control Congress next year. His party, however, has defied historical trends by averting the heavy losses that sitting presidents typically suffer in their first midterm election cycle.
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