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JOE BIDEN

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BASEBALL / MLB
Apr 1, 2021
Biden supports moving MLB All-Star Game in response to Georgia voting restrictions
U.S. President Joe Biden said Wednesday that he would support moving MLB's July All-Star Game from Atlanta as a protest against Georgia's new voting restrictions.
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COMMENTARY / World
Apr 1, 2021
Building a democratic high-tech alliance
Russian President Vladimir Putin is absolutely right: “Whoever becomes the leader in this (artificial intelligence) sphere will become the ruler of the world.”
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WORLD / FOCUS
Apr 1, 2021
Biden tells migrants to stay put. Central Americans hear a different message.
Disinformation suggesting that the U.S. border is now wide open has rocketed across social media and by word of mouth.
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WORLD
Mar 31, 2021
China tensions under Biden underscored by human rights report
The report released by the U.S. State Department accuses the Chinese government of 'crimes against humanity.”
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ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / ANALYSIS
Mar 28, 2021
Loaded language: U.S. denuclearization phrasing puts progress on North Korea in jeopardy
A simple shift in language by the Biden administration could prove to be a stumbling block for any talks with the nuclear-armed country.
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BUSINESS
Mar 27, 2021
Biden says he suggested to U.K.'s Johnson a plan to rival China's Belt and Road
China's Belt and Road Initiative is a multitrillion-dollar infrastructure program launched in 2013 and involving development and investment initiatives stretching from East Asia to Europe.
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ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Mar 27, 2021
U.S. lawmakers ask Biden to make travel easier from Taiwan
A group of nine lawmakers asked the Biden administration to establish a facility to expedite travel to the U.S. from Taiwan’s main international airport, a show of support for the island amid fear it could be targeted by an increasingly aggressive China.
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WORLD
Mar 26, 2021
Missile tests propel North Korea to top of Biden's foreign agenda
The United States condemned Thursday's launches, which came hours before Biden held his first White House press conference since taking office in January.
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EDITORIALS
Mar 25, 2021
North Korea provokes in predictable ways
In many ways, North Korea is quite predictable. The government in Pyongyang was expected to try to provoke the Biden administration, and this week it did just that with a series of missile launches. International reaction has been muted — as it should be. Every challenge does not deserve a response....
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COMMENTARY / World
Mar 25, 2021
Biden’s U.S.-Saudi re-calibration
Biden, like every other U.S. president since Dwight Eisenhower in the 1950s, realizes that Saudi Arabia is vital to maintaining American strategic interests.
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WORLD / Politics
Mar 25, 2021
Blinken says U.S. won’t force ‘us-or-them’ choice with China
The top American diplomat said that the U.S. and its allies need to come together to develop technologies when the benefits of trading with China must be weighed against the risks.
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COMMENTARY / World
Mar 24, 2021
The U.S. must approach North Korea as it is
For Pyongyang, a nuclear deterrent is inextricably linked to the regime's survival.
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COMMENTARY / World
Mar 24, 2021
U.S. and China deviate from the diplomacy script
“Strong smell of gunpowder and drama” was the way Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian described the U.S-China meeting in Anchorage.
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ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Mar 24, 2021
North Korean missile test: The start of a fresh cycle of provocations?
The fresh weapons test could put Washington in a tough spot as it prepares to brief allies in Tokyo and Seoul next week on a review of U.S. policy toward Pyongyang.
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WORLD
Mar 24, 2021
China lashes out at U.S. allies in bid to thwart Biden strategy
China's assertive response on the heels of a rare public dust-up with U.S. officials in Alaska last week shows Xi's government is digging in against international criticism.

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