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Pres. Biden’s tweets on US and NATO
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Earlier this year, the U.S. surged 20,000 additional U.S. forces to Europe to strengthen our NATO Alliance in response to Russia’s aggression against Ukraine and the changing security environment. We’ll continue to adjust our posture to ensure the defense of our Allies:
We’re working with Spain to increase U.S. Navy destroyers in Rota, establishing a permanent HQ in Poland, putting an additional rotational Brigade Combat Team in Romania, enhancing our Baltic presence, and sending two more F-35 squadrons to the UK.
NATO is ready to meet threats from all directions, across every domain: land, air, sea, cyber and space.
Xi Jinping brought Hong Kong to heel. Now he’s back in a city transformed
Chinese flags flutter above streets and red celebratory banners line the harbor front, as a beaming crowd of masked officials and school children wave and chant in unison inside Hong Kong’s high-speed rail terminus, welcoming the arrival of Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
In his first trip outside mainland China since the start of the pandemic, Xi arrived in Hong Kong Thursday to mark the 25th anniversary of its return to Chinese rule on July 1 — a highly symbolic event at a pivotal time for both the city, and Xi himself.
Tiếp tục đọc “Xi Jinping brought Hong Kong to heel. Now he’s back in a city transformed “
CFR Daily News Brief June 30, 2022
| Top of the Agenda China’s Xi Visits Hong Kong, Praises Its ‘Rise From Ashes’Chinese President Xi Jinping is in Hong Kong for ceremonies marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the city’s handover from British rule. He said Hong Kong has “risen from the ashes” (SCMP) since his last visit in 2017. Since then, Beijing has cracked down on dissent and independent media in the city. While Xi’s 2017 visit was followed by a pro-democracy march (Bloomberg), Hong Kong’s streets have been empty of demonstrations this week because of the sweeping national security law Beijing imposed on the city in 2020 and warnings from police. It is Xi’s first trip outside mainland China since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The anniversary also marks the halfway point of a promise Beijing made to maintain liberal institutions in Hong Kong for fifty years. The United States and United Kingdom have accused Beijing of breaking the promise. |
CFR Daily News Brief June 29, 2022
| Top of the Agenda U.S., NATO Strengthen Military Presence in Europe U.S. President Joe Biden said the United States will send more troops and weapons (FT) to Europe as part of a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) defense buildup over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Washington will establish a new permanent army headquarters in Poland, send five thousand additional troops to Romania, and up its deployments in the Baltic states. NATO is seeking a response force of three hundred thousand troops, a sevenfold increase (Politico) from the current level. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg called the announcements the biggest overhaul of NATO defenses since the end of the Cold War. Meanwhile, Turkey dropped its veto (Al Jazeera) on Finland’s and Sweden’s applications for NATO membership after the countries committed to toughening their approaches to groups Turkey views as threats. |
The G7 Leaders – along with the leaders of Argentina, India, Indonesia, Senegal, and South Africa – released a statement on Democratic Resilience
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2022 Resilient Democracies Statement
Elmau, 27 June 2022
We, the Leaders of Germany, Argentina, Canada, France, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Senegal, South Africa, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, and the European Union, affirm our commitment to strengthening the resilience of our democracies and to working towards equitable, inclusive and sustainable solutions to global challenges, including climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic, and reaffirm our commitment to
the rules-based international order.
FACT SHEET: The United States Continues to Strengthen Cooperation with G7 on 21st Century Challenges, including those Posed by the People’s Republic of China (PRC)
JUNE 28, 2022•STATEMENTS AND RELEASES The White House
Today President Biden met with G7 leaders to strengthen our cooperation on economic issues, cyberspace and quantum, and other 21st century challenges, including those posed by China to our workers, companies, and national security. The G7, representing over 50% of the world economy, is demonstrating that it is among the most potent institutions in the world today, with like-minded democracies solving problems.
Committing to a unified approach to confront China’s unfair economic practices: The G7 will release collective, unprecedented language acknowledging the harms caused by the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) non-transparent, market-distorting industrial directives. They will commit to working together to develop a coordinated approach to remedy the PRC’s non-market policies and practices to ensure a level playing field for businesses and workers.
Tiếp tục đọc “FACT SHEET: The United States Continues to Strengthen Cooperation with G7 on 21st Century Challenges, including those Posed by the People’s Republic of China (PRC)”FACT SHEET: President Biden and G7 Leaders Announce Further Efforts to Counter Putin’s Attack on Food Security
JUNE 28, 2022•STATEMENTS AND RELEASES The White House
Biden-Harris Administration is Driving a Multi-Pronged Response to Global Food Security Crisis
President Biden and G7 leaders will announce that they will contribute over $4.5 billion to address global food security, over half of which will come from the United States. President Biden will announce $2.76 billion in additional U.S. Government funding commitments to help protect the world’s most vulnerable populations and mitigate the impacts of Russia’s unprovoked and unjustified war in Ukraine on growing food insecurity and malnutrition. These new investments will support efforts in over 47 countries and regional organizations, to support regional plans to address increasing needs.
Tiếp tục đọc “FACT SHEET: President Biden and G7 Leaders Announce Further Efforts to Counter Putin’s Attack on Food Security”5 địa phương ở TP HCM nguy cơ ‘dịch chồng dịch’
Thứ tư, 29/6/2022, 13:35 (GMT+7) vnexpress
Các quận huyện Bình Tân, 12, Tân Phú, Bình Chánh và TP Thủ Đức nguy cơ bùng dịch sốt xuất huyết cũng như Covid-19, theo Giám đốc Sở Y tế Tăng Chí Thượng.
Thông tin được ông Tăng Chí Thượng nói tại cuộc họp về tình hình kinh tế – xã hội giữa năm của UBND TP HCM, sáng 29/6. Cảnh báo được đưa ra trong bối cảnh biến thể Covid-19 mới đã xuất hiện tại Việt Nam, song tỷ lệ tiêm nhắc vaccine còn rất thấp và dịch sốt xuất huyết cũng đang bùng phát ở địa phương này.
Về Covid-19, ông Thượng dẫn Tổ chức Y tế Thế giới (WHO) cho biết các biến thể mới như BA.4 và BA.5 đang có xu hướng thay thế chủng cũ (BA.2) trên toàn cầu. Theo nhận định của Cục Y tế Dự phòng, BA.5 cũng có khả năng trở thành biến thể chủ đạo ở Việt Nam trong thời gian tới.
Tiếp tục đọc “5 địa phương ở TP HCM nguy cơ ‘dịch chồng dịch’”Sáu năm hoạt động của tuyến BRT Hà Nội
Thứ tư, 29/6/2022, 10:37 (GMT+7) vnexpress
Được đầu tư vốn lớn cùng làn đường riêng, tuyến BRT đầu tiên của Hà Nội chưa thu hút được người dân, không giảm ùn tắc và thúc đẩy giao thông công cộng.
Tuyến BRT Kim Mã – Yên Nghĩa được phê duyệt từ năm 2007 với tổng vốn đầu tư khoảng 55 triệu USD, tương đương 1.100 tỷ đồng. Ngày 1/1/2017, tuyến bắt đầu hoạt động theo lộ trình Yên Nghĩa – Ba La – Lê Trọng Tấn – Tố Hữu – Lê Văn Lương – Láng Hạ – Giảng Võ – bến xe Kim Mã. Người dân di chuyển toàn tuyến dài 14,77 km sẽ mất khoảng 45 phút.
Dự án được thực hiện bằng vốn vay của Ngân hàng Thế giới (WB). Đây là hợp phần trong lộ trình dài hơi phát triển giao thông công cộng Hà Nội mà WB tham gia. Cơ quan này đưa ra nhiều mục tiêu khi xây dựng tuyến buýt nhanh, như cải thiện tình trạng ùn tắc, ô nhiễm; làm nền tảng phát triển hạ tầng giao thông công cộng; thúc đẩy người dân chuyển từ xe cá nhân sang phương tiện công cộng.
Tiếp tục đọc “Sáu năm hoạt động của tuyến BRT Hà Nội”PULLING BACK THE CURTAIN ON CHINA’S MARITIME MILITIA
PUBLISHED: NOVEMBER 18, 2021, CSIS
Over the past year, the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative and the Center for Advanced Defense Studies conducted a study of China’s maritime militia using remote sensing data and open-source Chinese language research. The resulting report, Pulling Back the Curtain on China’s Maritime Militia, features the most comprehensive study to-date of the structure, subsidies, and ownership networks of China’s maritime militia in the South China Sea, as well as a methodology for identifying Chinese maritime militia vessels and a list of over 120 militia vessels thus identified.
The full report can be accessed here:
Pulling Back the Curtain on China’s Maritime Militia (full PDF download)
Translations:
Menyingkap Semula Tirai Tentera Maritim Cina (Malay Translation)
Vén màn sự thật về Dân quân Hàng hải Trung Quốc (Vietnamese Translation)
Executive Summary
Since completing the construction of its artificial island outposts in the Spratly Islands in 2016, China has shifted its focus toward asserting control over peacetime activity across the South China Sea. A key component of this shift has been the expansion of China’s maritime militia—a force of vessels ostensibly engaged in commercial fishing but which in fact operate alongside Chinese law enforcement and military to achieve Chinese political objectives in disputed waters.
Tiếp tục đọc “PULLING BACK THE CURTAIN ON CHINA’S MARITIME MILITIA”FACT SHEET: President Biden and G7 Leaders Formally Launch the Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment
JUNE 26, 2022•The White House STATEMENTS AND RELEASES
The Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment will deliver game-changing projects to close the infrastructure gap in developing countries, strengthen the global economy and supply chains, and advance U.S. national security
President Biden will announce new flagship projects and lay out the Administration’s comprehensive effort to execute the Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment.
At the 2021 G7 Summit, President Biden and G7 leaders announced their intent to develop a values-driven, high-impact, and transparent infrastructure partnership to meet the enormous infrastructure needs of low- and middle-income countries and support the United States’ and its allies’ economic and national security interests. Over the past year, members of the Administration have traveled to hear directly from countries on how we can meet their infrastructure needs, deepened our coordination across the U.S Government and with the G7, honed our infrastructure investment tools, and closed game-changing deals.
Energy prices are causing chaos in Asia. Here’s why the rest of the world should worry
Analysis by Tara Subramaniam, CNN Business
Updated 0046 GMT (0846 HKT) June 26, 2022
‘Years of economic mismanagement’: Why Sri Lanka has a fuel crisis 05:11
(CNN Business)In Sri Lanka, people queue for miles to fill a tank of fuel. In Bangladesh, shops shut at 8 p.m. to conserve energy. In India and Pakistan, power outages force schools to shut, businesses to close and residents to swelter without air conditioning through deadly heat waves in which temperatures top 100 degrees Fahrenheit (37 degrees Celsius).
These are just some of the more eye-catching scenes playing out in the Asia Pacific region, where various countries are facing their worst energy crisis in years — and grappling with the growing discontent and instability caused by knock-on increases in the cost of living.
Tiếp tục đọc “Energy prices are causing chaos in Asia. Here’s why the rest of the world should worry”World leaders are facing crises on all fronts. Putin will be watching if they fail
Analysis by Nic Robertson, CNN International Diplomatic Editor
Updated 0405 GMT (1205 HKT) June 25, 2022 CNN
Flags representing the G7 Summit, Germany and the European Union fly ahead of the summit, scheduled to take place at Schloss Elmau in Germany’s Bavaria region from June 26 to 28.
(CNN)What a difference a year makes. Enormous challenges, some of them barely imaginable when the G7 leaders last met 12 months ago, are bearing down on the world’s most prosperous democratic nations as they prepare to meet in Germany.
Optimism was in the air at the Cornish beach resort of Carbis Bay in 2021 as the G7‘s presidents, prime ministers and chancellor met face-to-face for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic began.
Together they vowed to “beat Covid-19 and build back better,” to “reinvigorate economies,” to “protect our planet” and to “strengthen partnerships.”
But global events have since overtaken their best efforts, and it is far from clear if they will be able to build on those goals this year. Russia’s unprompted invasion of Ukraine is a large and singular cloud, but other thunderheads are gathering too.
Zelensky will address G7 and NATO summits
Over the next few days, the leaders of Japan, Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, the European Union and host Germany will meet amid the seclusion of Bavaria’s luxurious Schloss Elmau retreat.
Tiếp tục đọc “World leaders are facing crises on all fronts. Putin will be watching if they fail”China jettisons underdog tag to become space force
Andrew MullenDeputy Editor, Political Economy 25 June 2022
Dear Global Impact Readers,
Space, they say, is the final frontier. But how far does that frontier go and what’s out there?
China, has in recent years, accelerated all things space as part of its busy science programme we recapped a few weeks ago, from landing a rover on Mars to nearing completion of its Tiangong space station.
In this issue, the SCMP’s Stephen Chen, the news editor for science with our China desk, is back to look at China’s exploits and gaze into what the future holds for its ambitious space programme. Tiếp tục đọc “China jettisons underdog tag to become space force”
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