{"id":142719,"date":"2021-10-26T04:48:24","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T04:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=142719"},"modified":"2021-10-26T04:48:24","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T04:48:24","slug":"biden-to-attend-asean-summit-trump-skipped-after-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/politics\/biden-to-attend-asean-summit-trump-skipped-after-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden to attend ASEAN summit Trump skipped after 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>U.S. President Joe Biden will take part in a virtual\u00a0summit\u00a0with the Association of Southeast\u00a0Asian\u00a0Nations (ASEAN) on Tuesday, Washington&#x27;s first time in four years.<\/li>\n<li>The White House said Biden would discuss the &quot;enduring&quot; U.S. commitment to ASEAN&#x27;s central role in regional affairs and new initiatives to strengthen the U.S. strategic partnership with the bloc.<\/li>\n<li>Analysts say Biden&#x27;s meeting with the 10-nation bloc reflects his administration&#x27;s efforts to engage allies and partners in a collective effort to push back against China.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>U.S. President Joe Biden will take part in a virtual\u00a0summit\u00a0with the Association of Southeast\u00a0Asian\u00a0Nations (ASEAN) on Tuesday, the first time in four years Washington will engage at the top level with a bloc it sees as key to its strategy of pushing back against China.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. embassy in Brunei told Reuters Biden will lead the U.S. delegation for the ASEAN-United States\u00a0summit, part of a series of ASEAN leaders&#x27; meetings this week.<\/p>\n<p>The White House said Biden would discuss the &quot;enduring&quot; U.S. commitment to ASEAN&#x27;s central role in regional affairs and new initiatives to strengthen the U.S. strategic partnership with the bloc, &quot;as we work together to end the Covid-19 pandemic, address the climate crisis, promote economic growth, and address a range of other regional challenges and opportunities.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The United States has not joined the meetings at the presidential level since Biden&#x27;s predecessor, Donald Trump, attended an ASEAN-U.S. meeting in Manila in 2017.<\/p>\n<h2>CNBC Politics<\/h2>\n<p>Read more of CNBC&#x27;s politics coverage:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Democrats trim Biden&#x27;s social spending plan as they rush to strike a deal this week<\/li>\n<li>Private equity, hedge funds accounted for over $625 million in political spending during 2020 campaign, study says <\/li>\n<li>Former Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas convicted in campaign finance case<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Analysts say Biden&#x27;s meeting with the 10-nation bloc reflects his administration&#x27;s efforts to engage allies and partners in a collective effort to push back against China.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. officials, however, have not made specific mention of China in the run-up to the meeting as they work to set up a virtual\u00a0summit\u00a0between Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping later this year.<\/p>\n<p>They expect Biden to focus on collaboration on Covid-19 vaccine distribution, climate, supply chains and infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>He is also expected to assure ASEAN that a recent U.S. focus on engagement with India, Japan and Australia in the so-called Quad grouping and a deal to supply Australia with nuclear-powered submarines are not intended to supplant ASEAN&#x27;s central regional role.<\/p>\n<p>Edgard Kagan, senior director for East Asia at the White House National Security Council, stressed last week that Washington does not see the Quad as &quot;an\u00a0Asian\u00a0NATO&quot; and that it was not intended to compete with ASEAN.<\/p>\n<p>He said Washington had an interest in working with ASEAN to ensure supply-chain resilience, on climate, and to address &quot;common challenges on maritime issues&quot; \u2014 an apparent reference to China&#x27;s broad claims in the disputed South China Sea.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;This will be Biden&#x27;s first meeting with the leaders of ASEAN as president, so he will want to assure them that Southeast Asia matters to his administration,&quot; said Murray Hiebert, a Southeast Asia expert with Washington&#x27;s Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank.<\/p>\n<p>Hiebert said ASEAN leaders would be anxious to hear of any U.S. plans to step up provision of Covid-19 vaccines to the region, which has been hard hit by the pandemic, and how Washington plans to engage on trade, investment and infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>Biden has given no sign of any plan to return to a regional trade framework Trump withdrew from in 2017, and an\u00a0Asian\u00a0diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the lack of an economic element in U.S. regional engagement was a major gap.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The piece that is most important for the region, is the economic piece,&quot; the diplomat said. &quot;We&#x27;re kind of stuck in that the region says: &#x27;You&#x27;ve put in place a strategic sort of competitive structure with China, but this doesn&#x27;t benefit the region at all. And, meanwhile, all of us have got economic relationships growing with China.&#x27;&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The ASEAN meetings will take place without Myanmar military leader Min Aung Hlaing, who overthrew a civilian government on Feb. 1 \u2014 a rare exclusion for a grouping usually known for non-interference.<\/p>\n<p>Kagan called this a significant step but said more needed to be done to address the challenges Myanmar is facing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/10\/26\/biden-to-attend-asean-summit-trump-skipped-after-2017.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. President Joe Biden will take part<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":142718,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23055],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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