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☆ U.S. review of China tariffs won't depend on trade 'breakthrough:' deputy U.S. trade representative
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-28 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

A Chinese and US national flag hang on a fence at an international school in Beijing on December 6, 2018. We're not base-casing any breakthrough in the trade relationship" with China as part of the review, Bianchi said. Among the major categories that escaped tariffs were cellphones, laptop computers and videogame consoles. Bianchi declined to say when the review would be completed, but added that this was "reasonable" by the end of 2023. Some trade experts in Washington view that date as a possible decision point in the tariff review.

SEOUL, May 17 (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Wednesday his country is ready to partner with South Korea on critical minerals and clean energy projects, and to fend off North Korea's nuclear and missile threats. Addressing South Korea's parliament, Trudeau said Canada was committed to increase military engagement to mitigate threats to regional security, while working together with Seoul to denuclearise North Korea. "Canada is ready to strengthen our partnership with friends like Korea on everything from critical minerals to high-tech innovation to clean energy solutions," Trudeau said. Yoon and Trudeau will sign an agreement on key mineral supply chains, clean energy conversion and energy security cooperation, a South Korean government official has said. "Canada is committed to increase not just our trade, but also our military engagement as a means of mitigating threats to regional security," Trudeau said.

☆ Australia aims to start making guided missiles within two years
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

SYDNEY, April 26 (Reuters) - Australia said on Wednesday it would start domestic manufacture of guided missiles by 2025, two years sooner than expected, in a wide-ranging shakeup of defence arrangements to focus on long-range strike capability. read moreThe timetable for domestic manufacture of guided weapons, originally set for 2027, will be hastened to within two years by allocating A$2.5 billion to the project, Defence Minister Richard Marles said in media interviews. The government was already in talks with missile manufacturers Raytheon (RTX.N) and Lockheed (LMT.N) about establishing production in Australia, Marles added. Discussions were also being held with Kongsberg (KOG.OL), the Norwegian manufacturer of the naval strike missile Australia had already agreed to purchase, he said. Pat Conroy, the minister for defence industry, said the review recommended acquiring Kongsberg's joint strike missile which would "allow us to look at manufacturing the Strike Missile family of missiles in Australia".

☆ Australia to prioritise long-range strike capability in defence shakeup
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-24 | by ( Kirsty Needham | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

[1/6] Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Australian Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles, Australian Defence Industry Minister Pat Conroy and Chief of the Australian Defence Force (ADF) Angus Campbell speak to the media at a news conference after the release of the Defence Strategic Review at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia April 24, 2023. AAP/Lukas Coch/via REUTERSCANBERRA, April 24 (Reuters) - Australia's government will prioritise long-range precision strike, domestic production of guided weapons, and diplomacy - key points of a review released Monday recommending the country's biggest defence shakeup since World War Two. Australia must also strengthen defence cooperation with Japan, India, Pacific and South East Asian nations, the review said. The review found Australia's defence force was "not fit for purpose", he said. The navy needs more smaller vessels with long-range strike weapons, with details decided after an independent analysis this year, the report said.

[1/3] Admiral John C. Aquilino, Commander of the United States Indo-Pacific Command speaks at the IISS Special Lecture in Singapore March 16, 2023. REUTERS/Caroline ChiaSINGAPORE, March 16 (Reuters) - The current friction in the Indo Pacific is alarming and "trending in the wrong direction", but the U.S. presence was not an effort to contain or invite conflict with China, a senior U.S. admiral said on Thursday. Admiral John Aquilino, Commander of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, said an "AUKUS" partnership between Australia, Britain and the United States to provide Australia with nuclear-powered submarines was to boost its defence capability. Aquilino said the United States, with its exercises and patrols in the region, was not seeking conflict or to contain China, and would not support Taiwan's independence. "There's a place for China in this world to adhere and follow the rules like all the rest of us do," he said.

☆ Thailand hosts thousands of US troops for annual 'Cobra Gold' drills
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-28 | by ( Kwang Jirapornkuhakan | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

RAYONG, Thailand, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Thailand and the United States kicked off on Tuesday military exercises involving more than 7,000 personnel and forces from 30 countries, with the annual drills including a component focused on space exercises for the first time. "Cobra Gold", launched in 1982, is one of the world's longest-running multilateral military exercises and the biggest in Southeast Asia, serving as a key platform for Washington to shore up alliances in Asia at a time of increasing competition with China. After the drills were scaled back during the pandemic, nearly 6,000 U.S. troops will take part this year, Admiral John Aquilino, Commander of the United States Indo-Pacific Command, said, the highest number in a decade. Tensions have increased in the region between the United States and China over Beijing's growing assertiveness in the South China Sea and over self-ruled Taiwan. Military and civilian space agencies from Thailand, the United States and Japan will take part, it said.

☆ Odds 'very high' of U.S. military conflict with China, top Republican says
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-29 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

REUTERS/Mike Segar/File PhotoWASHINGTON, Jan 29 (Reuters) - A top Republican in the U.S. Congress said on Sunday the odds of conflict with China over Taiwan "are very high," after a U.S. general caused consternation with a memo that warned the United States would fight China in the next two years. Both the United States and Taiwan will hold presidential elections in 2024, potentially creating an opportunity for China to take military action, Minihan wrote. McCaul said that if China failed to take control of Taiwan bloodlessly then "they are going to look at a military invasion in my judgment. "The odds are very high that we could see a conflict with China and Taiwan and the Indo Pacific," McCaul said. On Saturday, a Pentagon official said the general's comments were "not representative of the department's view on China."

☆ Germany's Scholz calls for closer EU trade ties with Southeast Asia
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-14 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

He said he hopes to see quick progress in the EU's trade negotiations with Australia, India and Indonesia and remains open to new agreements beyond that. His trip, one week after a visit to China, comes within the context of Germany's attempts to diversify trade in Asia, which has some of the fastest growing economies in the world. Scholz said that reducing risky, one-sided dependencies for certain raw materials or critical technologies would play an important role in Germany's national security strategy but added that de-coupling was not the answer. "A world with new or resurrected trade barriers and de-integrated economies will not be a better place," he said according to a prepared speech text. Reporting by Maria Sheahan and Kirsti Knolle Editing by Paul CarrelOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Russia's Lavrov says West seeking to militarise southeast Asia
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-13 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Nov 13 (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Sunday said the West was "militarising" southeast Asia in a bid to contain Russian and Chinese interests, setting the stage for a confrontation between Russia and Western leaders at the G20 summit in Bali. Lavrov will head Russia's delegation to the summit - the first such meeting since Moscow invaded Ukraine in February - after the Kremlin said President Vladimir Putin was too busy to attend. "The United States and its NATO allies are trying to master this space," Lavrov told reporters. Putin portrays Russia and China as the leaders of a global rebellion against the post-Soviet global dominance of the United States and the West. The United States casts China and Russia as the two main global threats.

☆ Biden says U.S.-ASEAN pact to address 'biggest issues of our time'
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-12 | by ( Nandita Bose | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

[1/8] U.S. President Joe Biden speaks at the 2022 ASEAN summit in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, November 12, 2022. In his first visit to Southeast Asia as president, Biden said the region was at the heart of his administration's Indo-Pacific strategy and Washington was committing resources, not just rhetoric, under a new Comprehensive Strategic Partnership. ASEAN is engaging a host of leaders, including Biden, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol. At the gatherings, Biden will focus on the Indo-Pacific region and talk about U.S. commitment to a rules-based order in the South China Sea, a senior administration official said earlier this week. Biden on Saturday said the meetings would discuss Russia's "brutal" war against Ukraine and U.S. efforts to address the war's global impact.

☆ Blinken to host 'Blue Pacific' event amid competition with China
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-19 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Campbell said circumstances for the Pacific islands countries were "much more dire" than in the past. We're going to seek to do that as we go forward, building on the existing institutions and engagements of the Pacific." The Blue Pacific event, on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in New York, will come ahead of a Sept. 28-29 summit U.S. President Joe Biden plans to host with Pacific island leaders, which Campbell said reflected "a desire to demonstrate clearly our larger commitment to the Pacific going forward." U.S.-China competition for influence in the Pacific islands has intensified this year after China signed a security agreement with the Solomon Islands, prompting warnings of a militarization of the region. read morePacific island leaders said this month Washington should accept their priorities, making climate change - not superpower competition - the most urgent security task.

☆ Kremlin: Prezența militară rusă în Arctica este „absolut necesară” pentru Vladimir Putin
▼ + stars: | 2021-04-07 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +2 min

Sursa foto: japantimes.co.jpKremlin: Prezența militară rusă în Arctica este „absolut necesară” pentru Vladimir PutinPreședintele rus Vladimir Putin consideră prezența trupelor ruse în Arctica o parte „absolut necesară” a dezvoltării militare a țării, a spus purtătorul de cuvânt al Kremlinului, Dmitri Peskov, scrie digi24.roRăspunzând relatărilor CNN despre imagini din satelit care arată imense acumulări militare rusești în Arctica , Peskov a spus: „comandantul-șef [Putin] consideră cu adevărat prezența militară rusă în Arctica ca fiind un element absolut necesar pentru dezvoltarea militară”, relatează Mediafax. „Zona arctică este o regiune foarte importantă a Federației Ruse, care se aplică atât granițelor noastre, cât și zonei noastre economice speciale. Potențialul economic crește de la an la an, știți că există planuri generale de dezvoltare națională în Arctica, iar toate acestea sunt implementate în mod consecvent", a spus Peskov. „Nimeni nu vrea să vadă Arctica ca o regiune care se militarizează”, a spus luni purtătorul de cuvânt al Pentagonului, John Kirby. În ceea ce privește aceste preocupări, Peskov a spus că „nu trebuie uitat că America însăși nu a renunțat niciodată la prezența sa militară în zona arctică și nu și-a slăbit niciodată atenția asupra zonei arctice”.

Persons: Vladimir Putin Președintele, Vladimir Putin, Dmitri Peskov, Putin, Poseidon, John Kirby ., Peskov Organizations: Mediafax, CNN, Pacific Europe Locations: Kremlin, Arctica, Federației Ruse, Pacific, America

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