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The White House's petty dig at MBS shows Biden is serious about bringing Saudi Arabia to heel
The White House announced that Biden's opposite number in Saudi Arabia is King Salman. It was a clear dig at Crown Prince Mohammed, who is in reality running Saudi Arabia. The Biden administration seems reticent to engage with MBS given his nefarious human-rights record. Visit the Business section of Insider for more stories. The White House effectively downgraded Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's status in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday. Jen Psaki, the White House press secretary, said the Biden administration will "recalibrate" how it treats the kingdom, and started by redefining President Joe Biden's opposite number.
The White House announced that Biden's opposite number in Saudi Arabia is King Salman. It was a clear dig at Crown Prince Mohammed, who is in reality running Saudi Arabia. The Biden administration seems reticent to engage with MBS given his nefarious human-rights record. Visit the Business section of Insider for more stories. The White House effectively downgraded Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's status in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday. Jen Psaki, the White House press secretary, said the Biden administration will "recalibrate" how it treats the kingdom, and started by redefining President Joe Biden's opposite number. When President Joe Biden welcomed his Canadian counterpart to the White House on Tuesday to "reinvigorate" a cross-border relationship strained under his predecessor, he did so by addressing a large television monitor.
Biden and Trudeau will make brief remarks at start of virtual summit . Issues on table: climate change, COVID pandemic and vaccine, Keystone XL pipeline, Biden 's 'Buy American' policy, and China. President Joe Biden will host to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday for the first bilateral meeting of his presidency, but he will do it virtually . In pre-pandemic times, such a meeting would have been held with fanfare: Biden welcoming the Canadian prime minister with great pomp upon his arrival, an Oval Office talk between the two leaders , a joint news conference and perhaps a
US President Joe Biden will attend his second "virtual" summit with a foreign leader early next week when he meets his Mexican counterpart Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
© ALFREDO ESTRELLA Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's office said he would talk with his US counterpart Joe Biden about their countries' "shared vision and objectives" "On Monday, March 1, President Joe Biden will meet with President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador," White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said in a statement Friday.
She added that the "virtual event" would touch on cooperation on migration, joint development efforts in Southern Mexico and Central America, Covid-19 recovery and economic cooperation.
Black, Latino Groups See Ally In Kamala Harris As Biden Administration Navigates First 100 Days
Harris has leaned into being the first woman and first woman of color in the role to connect with groups that will be key to the administration's success as the recovery unfolds. On Thursday, Harris met with Senator Catherine Cortez Masto, Representative Barbara Lee, and members of women's advocacy groups including the Black Women's Roundtable, the National Association of Women Business Owners, and the National Congress of American Indians, to discuss what she termed, in a recent Washington Post op-ed, the "national emergency" of 2.5 million women leaving the workforce since the beginning of the pandemic. President Joe Biden , Vice President Kamala Harris, singer-songwriter Anthony Hamilton and the St. Augustine Choir are the headliners for this year’s White House Black History Month Celebration. Usually, the annual event takes place on the state floor of the White House and is packed with attendees in the East Room where speeches are given with live Over the decades, U.S. presidents of both political parties have held official celebrations for Black History Month, where celebrities, Black leaders and those concerned with and for the community gather for music, speeches and fellowship.
Blinken, who also plans virtually to visit the US- Mexico border, is following the lead of Biden , who on Tuesday held his first " summit " in the form of a virtual meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Former president Donald Trump had strained ties with many close US allies including Canada although many were surprised by his productive relationship with Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, a populist from the left. Under pressure of sanctions from Trump, Mexico agreed to keep on its soil thousands of Central Americans and other asylum seekers pending review
The Mexican president's office for its part said the two leaders "will talk about the shared vision and objectives," including "cooperation mechanisms to address the structural causes of migration in northern Central America and southern Mexico."
Migration has become a central issue in the relationship between Mexico and the United States, which share a 1,990-mile (3,200-kilometer) border.
Under Biden's predecessor, Republican Donald Trump, Mexico agreed - under the threat of tariffs being imposed - to keep thousands of people who applied for asylum in the United States on its own territory while their cases were processed.
Biden's first virtual meeting with another leader took place on Tuesday when he spoke with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Biden reaffirmed the close US ties with Canada, which had been strained under Trump, while Trudeau called the friendship between the neighbors "extraordinary."
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Biden and the ICC: Partial cooperation, selective justice .
How will the new administration of President Joe Biden approach the ICC? All signs point towards a return to piecemeal engagement, where Washington uses the court when it suits its interests and undermines it when it does not. Biden has said the United States is “back”. But on international justice, there’s a need to be different – and better. A tumultuous relationship The relationship between the US and the Hague-based court has always been tumultuous.
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