The White House offered a feeble response to China’s threat of shooting down House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) flight to Taiwan.
The Biden administration is looking to put pressure on Myanmar’s military junta. At a press briefing Monday, State Department spokesman Ned Price condemned Myanmar’s government, which has been run by it’s military since a coup in 2021, for executing four pro-democracy activists.
Joe Biden’s Justice Department ended a Trump-era program that countered Chinese espionage against the United States. This week, the DOJ said the 45th president’s China Initiative was not broad enough and claimed it created a climate of fear among Asian Americans.
The president is reportedly urging South Korea to commit more funding for U.S. troops stationed in the Asian nation.
U.S. Army soldiers at the June opening ceremony for the new headquarters of the U.S. Forces Korea at Camp Humphreys in Pyeongtaek, South Korea. PHOTO: AHN YOUNG-JOON/ASSOCIATED PRESS