https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-biden-asia-united-states-8efe01d970bc67ce19607c692d72e446 Joe Biden, the president of the United States, has decided to nominate one of his national security aids to be an ambassador to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, in order to continue his attempts to further relations in the pacific region. This happened after he wrapped up two days worth talks with ASEAN in Washington DC in order… Read more »
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-biden-japan-united-states-58fb1071c04114c2f2371fed2b768f In order to refocus life on the pacific/east Asian region, president Joe Biden has hosted the first Association of Southeast Asian nations in Washington, DC. This two day summit has multiple missions and goals- the first being to extend an arm to the pacific region and continue to foster relations with the region and create prospective alliances for the… Read more »
https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/3177140/us-calls-emergency-un-security-council-meeting-north-korea The United States felt that it was time for emergency action after the country of North Korea released that they had done yet another nuclear weapons test- making this 15 for the year. This most recent launch, done on Saturday, was a submarine ballistic missile. Another missile test, done in March, was the first intercontinental ballistic missile since 2017…. Read more »
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putin-boris-johnson-london-europe-89866f48f04c8ad1849505c39bef50ff As the conflict between Russia and Ukraine continues, outreach efforts by western countries have increased to try and minimize the fallout from the conflict, as well as protect other countries from Russia’s influence. But before the conflict in Ukraine ever unfolded, the UK highlighted that they would want to begin expanding it’s relations with countries in East Asia (this… Read more »
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-asia-tokyo-germany-europe-b0707f344b96efcc4fe751cdfa01c8e5 Although Germany was initially reluctant to pursue any sort of action against Russia in it’s war against Ukraine, they have sense branched into both militaristic support of Ukraine as well as an attempted partnership with both Japan, and potentially China, against Russia. For Germany, this may be an underlying attempt to prevent China and Japan from staging any sort… Read more »
