[ad_1] Bali, Indonesia CNN — President Joe Biden is confronting competing issues at home and abroad while he’s at the Group of 20 Summit in Bali this week, using the moment on the world’s stage to lean into international support for condemning Russia’s aggression while also facing the prospect of …
Read More »China’s Xi starts first day at G20 with a whirlwind of meetings with US allies
[ad_1] Bali, Indonesia CNN — After a near three-year absence from the world stage, Chinese leader Xi Jinping has embarked on a whirlwind of face-to-face meetings with Western leaders at the Group of 20 summit in Bali, as he looks to reassert China’s global influence. Following a three-hour meeting on …
Read More »Uganda’s President Museveni slams ‘Western double standards’ over Germany coal mine plans
[ad_1] CNN — Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has slammed Western countries over what he calls a “reprehensible double standard” in their response to the energy crisis brought about by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In a Twitter post on Sunday, Museveni singled out Germany for demolishing wind turbines to allow …
Read More »Taiwan-China tensions: US president’s past promises under microscope in meeting with Xi
[ad_1] Bali, Indonesia CNN — When President Joe Biden first declared that the United States had an obligation to protect Taiwan should China move on it, his words were written off by some as a casual, if unfortunate, mischaracterization of American policy. The fourth time Biden made the same statement, …
Read More »Biden and Xi sit down for high-stakes first in-person meeting as presidents
[ad_1] Bali, Indonesia CNN — President Joe Biden on Monday greeted his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in person for the first time since taking office, launching high-stakes talks whose effects could ripple around the world. Biden and Xi walked toward each other from opposite sides of a hotel lobby and …
Read More »Kherson: No water, power or internet — only euphoria in newly liberated Ukrainian city
[ad_1] Kherson, Ukraine CNN — For eight months, residents of the Ukrainian city of Kherson have been living under brutal Russian occupation. But on Friday, Ukrainian forces swept into the city and Russian troops retreated to the east. The residents have no water, no internet connection and little power. But …
Read More »Biden to meet with top US allies Japan and South Korea following midterm boost
[ad_1] Phnom Penh, Cambodia CNN — President Joe Biden landed in Cambodia on Saturday still reveling in midterm election results that have produced an unexpected boost at home for his second two years in office. The scale of the challenges abroad, and the effort to translate 21 months of intensive …
Read More »Biden and Xi return to the table with high stakes — and low expectations
[ad_1] Bali, Indonesia CNN — When Joe Biden and Xi Jinping first got to know each other more than 10 years ago, the US and China had been moving closer for three decades despite their differences. “The trajectory of the relationship is nothing but positive, and it’s overwhelmingly in the …
Read More »As major powers meet in Asia, the rest of the world is pressed to pick a side
[ad_1] Editor’s Note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Meanwhile in China newsletter, a three-times-a-week update exploring what you need to know about the country’s rise and how it impacts the world. Sign up here. Hong Kong CNN — World leaders are converging in Phnom Penh this weekend …
Read More »COP27 and G20: Biden aims to assert American leadership abroad
[ad_1] Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt CNN — It’s a story President Joe Biden tells at nearly every opportunity: last year, meeting his new counterparts at his first international summit, he proudly informed them, “America is back.” “For how long?” one of them asked. As Biden departs this week for a …
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