Biden lauds AUKUS as key achievement

January 15, 2025roymorgansocial Leave a comment

Original article by Joe Kelly
The Australian – Page: 2 : 15-Jan-25

US President Joe Biden has praised his administration’s management of foreign policy in a State Department speech. Biden stated that the US is in a better strategic position regarding long-term competition with China than when he took office in 2021. Biden also said over the last four years the US has created new partnerships in the Indo-Pacific region in order to challenge China’s "aggressive behaviour". He praised the AUKUS alliance with Australia and the UK, and noted that the majority of NATO member nations have increased their defence spending during his administration.

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UNITED STATES. EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT, NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANISATION

PM to quote Turnbull in Trump tariff talks

November 13, 2024roymorgansocial Leave a comment

Original article by Phillip Coorey
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 1 & 4 : 13-Nov-24

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will travel to Peru on Wednesday to attend the APEC leaders’ summit, ahead of the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro next week. However, he has rejected the Coalition’s push to have a stopover in the US to meet with president-elect Donald Trump, amid concerns that Australia will be directly impacted by his proposed tariff of up to 20 per cent on all non-China imports. Albanese has indicated that he will use similar arguments in tariff talks with Trump as those of former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull in 2017; the latter’s argument that Australia was one of the few nations that had a trade surplus with the US helped convince Trump to shelve plans to impose punitive tariffs on Australian steel and aluminium.

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Democrats’ presidential campaign redux: Kamala’s manifesto

July 24, 2024roymorgansocial Leave a comment

Original article by Cameron Stewart, Adam Creighton
The Australian – Page: 1 & 9 : 24-Jul-24

Associated Press has reported that at least 2,660 Democrat delegates will back Kamala Harris as the party’s presidential candidate; she requires the support of just 1,976 delegates to win the first ballot at the party’s National Convenion in August. Key Democrats have also backed Harris, including former House of Representatives speaker Nancy Pelosi and a growing number of state governors. Meanwhile, Harris has used her first major speech since becoming the Democrats’ presumptive presidential election nominee to criticise Donald Trump’s stance on issues such as taxation, social welfare and abortion. President Joe Biden in turn praised Harris in a phone call to the campaign meeting; in his first public comments since withdrawing from the election race, Biden said Trump is still a danger to the community and the nation.

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No AUKUS change, but Israel may be different

July 23, 2024roymorgansocial Leave a comment

Original article by Andrew Tillett
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 8 : 23-Jul-24

Michael Fullilove from the Lowy Institute says Kamala Harris is likely to adhere more closely to traditional US foreign policy compared with Donald Trump if she wins the presidential election. He notes that Harris has expressed support for the AUKUS defence pact with Australia and the UK, so it is likely to proceed under a Harris administration. However, Fullilove adds that the US government’s stance on Israel may change if Harris becomes president, given that she has been more supportive of Palestine than President Joe Biden. Delegates at the Democratic National Convention in mid-August will decide whether to formally endorse her nomination as the party’s presidential candidate.

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‘Not backing down’: G7 summit opens with deal to use Russian assets for Ukraine

June 14, 2024roymorgansocial Leave a comment

Original article by Paolo Santalucia
The Age – Page: Online : 14-Jun-24

The annual Group of Seven summit has opened in southern Italy, with the G7 leaders agreeing on a US proposal to back a $US50 billion loan to Ukraine that would use frozen Russian assets as collateral. US President Joe Biden said that the loan would serve as another reminder to Russian President Vladimir Putin that "we’re not backing down". Biden made his comments in a press conference alongside Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, at which Zelensky was asked about the question of Chinese support for Russia. Zelensky said he had had a phone call with the leader of China, and that he was told that China would not sell any weapons to Russia.

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Israel steps back from ground assault on Gaza

October 18, 2023roymorgansocial Leave a comment

Original article by Hans van Leeuwen
The Australian Financial Review – Page: Online : 18-Oct-23

Israeli Defence Force spokesman Lt Colonel Richard Hecht has downplayed suggestions that a ground invasion of Gaza could be imminent. He says Israel is preparing for the next stages of the war against Hamas, but this may not necessarily include a ground offensive. Any such invasion is unlikely to proceed until after US President Joe Biden visits Israel on Wednesday, where he will meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The US has put 2,000 troops on a "heightened state of readiness" and deployed two aircraft carriers to the region, and Israeli national security adviser Tzachi Hanegbi says Biden has made it "clear to our enemies" that the US will become involved if Iran or Hezbollah join the conflict.

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Biden orders end of Trump era

January 22, 2021roymorgansocial Leave a comment

Original article by Jacob Greber
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 1 & 10 : 22-Jan-21

New US President Joe Biden has signed 15 executive orders in his first day in office, while Donald Trump became the first outgoing president in over 150 years not to attend the inauguration of his successor. The executive orders signed by Biden included restoring US membership of the World Trade Organisation and scrapping a controversial oil pipeline project linking Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, on a day that saw Kamala Harris become America’s first female Vice-President. Biden also directed that masks be worn by anyone involved in interstate commerce and on all federal property.

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CEOs eye boost in Biden binge

January 18, 2021roymorgansocial Leave a comment

Original article by Glenda Korporaal
The Australian – Page: 13 & 18 : 18-Jan-21

Australian businessman Andrew Liveris says the incoming Biden administration is likely to pursue capital expenditure initiatives worth between $US2trn and $US4trn over the next several years. Liveris says this may generate opportunities for Australian companies, particularly in areas that are likely be a focus for Joe Biden, such as clean energy and associated infrastructure. Macquarie Specialised Asset Management chairman Tony Shepherd in turn says Biden administration’s stimulus program will be good for the global economy, including Australia. However, some business leaders have expressed concern about any move to roll back the Trump administration’s corporate tax cuts.

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Chaotic presidency doomed to end in disgrace

January 15, 2021roymorgansocial Leave a comment

Original article by Cameron Stewart
The Australian – Page: 1 & 9 : 15-Jan-21

The US House of Representatives has voted 232-197 to impeach President Donald Trump for inciting insurrection. Ten members of the Republican Party voted in favour of impeachment, and Trump will now face a trial in the Senate. However, Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says the trial is unlikely to proceed before the inauguration of Joe Biden on 20 January. Trump could be barred from running for president again if he is convicted in the Senate. Meanwhile, a new poll shows that Trump’s approval rating has fallen to 34 per cent, while a record 63 per cent of voters now disapprove of his performance.

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