Category: Antony Blinken

US Rejects China Maritime Claims, Calls for ASEAN Action on Burma

July 15, 2021
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HANOI—The United States rejects the Chinese regime’s “unlawful” maritime claims in the South China Sea and stands with Southeast Asian countries facing Chinese “coercion”, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday. The Chinese regime rejected Blinken’s comments, which he made in an address in a video conference with foreign ministers from the Association of…

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US and European Leaders Warn About China Setting Standards on AI

July 15, 2021
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Top U.S. and European leaders recently spoke about how democracies should set the rules for artificial intelligence (AI), instead of an authoritarian regime like China. “We cannot let China write the rules of the road around AI,” said U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo at the Global Emerging Technology Summit in Washington on June 13. The…

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Biden Administration Invites UN Racism Investigators to Visit US

July 14, 2021
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Tuesday that the administration has invited experts from the United Nations (U.N.) who investigate racism and minority issues to conduct an official visit to the United States. “As a first step, we have reached out to offer an official visit by the U.N. Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms…

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Bliken Holds Meeting With Uyghur Survivors of China’s Internment Camps

July 7, 2021
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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken held a virtual meeting on July 6 with seven Uyghurs including internment camp survivors, and expressed the United States’ commitment to ending Beijing’s ongoing crimes against humanity and genocide in China’s far-western Xinjiang region. “The United States will continue to place human rights at the forefront of our China…

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Blinken Holds Meeting With Uyghur Survivors of China’s Internment Camps

July 7, 2021
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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken held a virtual meeting on July 6 with seven Uyghurs including internment camp survivors, and expressed the United States’ commitment to ending Beijing’s ongoing crimes against humanity and genocide in China’s far-western Xinjiang region. “The United States will continue to place human rights at the forefront of our China…

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Israel Tells US It Has Serious Reservations About Iran Nuclear Deal

June 28, 2021
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ROME—Israel has serious reservations about the Iran nuclear deal being put together in Vienna, new foreign minister Yair Lapid told his American counterpart. In their first face-to-face meeting since Israel’s new government was sworn in two weeks ago, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Lapid had a very positive and warm discussion, according to…

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Why Does Biden Still Want to Talk to China?

June 23, 2021
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Commentary President Joe Biden, according to National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, wants to begin a new round of “engaging” China. Call this another Biden debacle in the making. On June 17, after the troubled meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Geneva, Sullivan told reporters that Biden “will look for opportunities to engage with President…

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Blinken Says Beijing Must Cooperate in Future Investigations Into CCP Virus Origins

June 14, 2021
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Sunday that Beijing must work with further investigations into the origins of the CCP virus. He added that China’s failure to cooperate was one reason that the World Health Organization’s initial report did not go well. “China has to cooperate with that,” Bliken told CBS’s “Face the Nation”…

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Blinken Declines to Say How US Would Hold China Accountable Over Wuhan Lab Access

June 7, 2021
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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday declined to disclose what the Biden administration would do to pressure the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) into allowing access to the Wuhan laboratory where the CCP virus, which causes COVID-19, is thought by some to have originated. “What would the U.S. actually do of substance to pressure China to…

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Blinken Criticizes Beijing Over Changes to Hong Kong’s Election Rules

May 28, 2021
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken condemned both Beijing and the Hong Kong government after a controversial electoral reform bill was passed by the Chinese-ruled city’s legislature on May 27. The bill, passed by a margin of 40 to 2, was passed in a rather empty chamber of the 70-seat Hong Kong Legislative Council (LegCo)—with only…

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