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US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed at their first summit in a year on Wednesday to restore military communications between the two countries, even as Biden went off script by saying he still considered Xi a “dictator”. The leaders shook hands and strolled around a garden at a historic California estate during four-hour talks aimed at …

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy reached an “agreement in principle” late Saturday as they raced to strike a deal that to limit federal spending and resolve the looming debt crisis ahead of a June 5 deadline, a person familiar with the situation said. A deal would avert a catastrophic U.S. default. The Democratic president and …

SYDNEY: US President Joe Biden and his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, will join Pacific Islands leaders next month for a “historic” future-oriented meeting, Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister James Marape said on Sunday. “This is a historic first and at the same time a ‘going forward’ futuristic meeting of global superpowers, in the biggest country in the Pacific,” Marape said …

WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden and his South Korean counterpart Yoon Suk Yeol warned North Korea on Wednesday it would face a nuclear response and the “end” of the leadership there if Pyongyang uses its own arsenal. Speaking at the White House after Oval Office talks during only the second state visit so far in the Biden presidency, the two leaders …

US President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida held “very productive” talks last week on semiconductor-related export controls on China, White House Indo-Pacific coordinator Kurt Campbell said on Tuesday. The Biden administration in October published a sweeping set of export controls, including measures tightly restricting Chinese access to US chipmaking technology, as part of an effort to slow Beijing’s technological …

MEXICO CITY — President Joe Biden, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and their host, Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador, said Tuesday they had made significant progress in strengthening cooperation on trade, migration, security, climate change and the stabilization of Haiti. Following a meeting between the three leaders, Biden said: “In today’s interconnected world, we cannot wall ourselves off from …

ROCKVILLE, Md. — President Joe Biden has much to crow about as he starts his push toward the midterms: record job growth, easing gas prices, student loan forgiveness and a flurry of laws tackling gun violence, climate change and drug prices. Yet his support remains sluggish, a big reason he picked deep blue suburban Maryland to start road testing a …

SCHLOSS ELMAU (Germany): US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping are expected to speak in the next few weeks, US national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Monday, citing growing convergence among Nato and G7 members about the challenge China poses. The Group of Seven rich democracies will address China’s non-market economic practices, its approach to debt and …

SEOUL: US President Joe Biden and South Korea’s new President Yoon Suk-yeol signalled on Saturday an expanded military presence in response to the “threat” from North Korea, while also offering to help the isolated regime face a Covid-19 outbreak. After meeting in Seoul on Biden’s first trip to Asia as president, the two leaders said in a statement that “considering …

AUSTIN – It’s April but whatever month it is, Gov. Greg Abbott is running simultaneously against President Joe Biden and Beto O’Rourke. And no matter the month, the vast majority of the time, the Republican incumbent governor is likely talking about a grievous crime and dereliction of presidential duty he sees: Biden & Co. are making the U.S.-Mexico border the …