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NEW: Senate passes security supplemental WITHOUT any amendments. COFA $$ no longer in the legislation. Affected Palau President Whipps writes about what’s at stake: “Every day it is not approved plays into the hands of the CCP and the leaders here (some of whom have done ‘business’ with the PRC) who want to accept its seemingly attractive economic offers – at the cost of shifting alliances, beginning with sacrificing Taiwan. The PRC has already offered to “fill every hotel room” in our tourism-based private sector – “and more if more are built” – and $20 million a year for two acres for a ‘call center.’ The legislation is critical for both of our democracies and a free and open Indo-Pacific.” Cleo Paskal Ivan Kanapathy Jeremiah Burroughs Steven Victor John Hennessey-Niland

In the current tenure, PM Oli should astonishingly initiate talks with China to grant visa-free travel to Nepalese citizens in China. This would not only help strengthen people-to-people contact and enhance trade activity by opening several connectivity options between China and Nepal but also help elevate the global status of the Nepalese passport, which would indeed lead Oli at the helm of foreign policy feat. Nepal's foreign policy should be utterly sensible, rational, and pragmatic, rather than being influenced by fear-psychoses, imperceptible hypotheses, or submissive philosophy, given the country's sensitive geo-location and the ongoing competition between global and regional powers in South Asia, especially in Nepal. Thus, it is necessary to pragmatize the conventional approach to foreign policy making in light of realism, facts, data, information, history, intelligence, and changing dynamics in techno-geopolitics and international relations. So, it is necessary to establish a robust and all-encompassing intelligence unit at the Prime Minister's office, which could supervise various sub-units such as the desks for the US, China, India, and the EU, wherein foreign policy experts should be employed to maintain the respective desks and offer the Prime Minister real-time advice and information as well as practical recommendations based on dynamism in international political and diplomatic spheres. https://lnkd.in/dSxGPqtg?

📢AWAKEN ✊️✌️🙏 In advocating Peace, we must also eradicate the source of chaos & rogue elements. #AmericanWarmongers' involvements in international terrorism and proxywars are existential threats to #GlobalPeace and #Stability. American rogue actors are maliciously manipulating the World into paths of #WW3 in a systemic manner. Wars gave them excuse to rob USD assets owned by foreign nations. #EmpireEvil is targeting #China #ASEAN as these are the emerging super economic blocs. By the definition of the #Supremacist #AmericanEmpire💀💀💀📢: "None of your foreign Children should have any credible ambition and opportunity of building a Sovereign Nation or Union stronger than #USA!" 📢#China is the #BenevolentDragon in our hope to counter the self-serving #Supremacist #EmpireEvil. ✊️ 🧐As Prof. #JohnMearsheimer clarified: The US strategic intent is to suppress China because #China is the Credible Peer Competition to ZeroSum #American #Hegemon. Thus, the current antiChina campaign and #apartheid trade and technology sanctions against China, roping in #EU and #Japan and other puppet states. #Experts: 📢No Provocation, More Diplomacy to de-escalate for win-win✌️👍👏🏻 🧐About 12 to 14 foreign weatern "journalists" joint the 100 Philippines boats approaching China's Water (how else would you propagate). Some geopolitical experts suggested that #US-led cohorts are playing active roles in the provocative exercise in the South China to distract the World from #GazaGenocide and #EthnicCleansing notoriously supported by #US and complicit Allies. [Those immoral #American sub-politicians and mouthpiece💀💀💀 would continue chanting war narratives "Ukraine need to win (proxy war) to weaken Russia, so we can (collectively) contain to suppress China's growth" "#Israel must win our war so we can contain #Iran to seek absolute dominance in the #MiddleEast and Global #Oil - so we can contain to suppress #China)".💀💀💀💀👿 There are strong voices within the #Philippines and #ASEAN leaderships to caution those in the Philippines against falling prey to the colonialist tactics of "divide & rules". #ASEAN #Australasia #SouthAsia #EastAsia could draw invaluable experience from the unfortunate events unfolding in the #UkraineProxyWar #GazaGenocide and #ethniccleansing of #Palestinian People ALL with the US's direct participation. Just recently, #AmericanSenator #LinseyGraham et al immorally suggested that Nuclear Bombing #Gaza quoting proudly America's dropping of atomic bombs in #Hiroshima and #Nagasaki. [🤔American did consider also dropping bombs in Taiwan and/or Shanghai before decided on Japan, then WW2 Agressor in Asia]. 📢There is an unspoken rule in the American-led #Supremacist #Apartheid Regime: "Nuclear Bombs only to be deployed in Asia Africa MiddleEast Pacific Australasia etc, many thousands miles away from America and Europe as those others are not 'own-kind' " 💀💀💀💀💀👿

Chinese premier lands in Australia on first such visit in 7 years

Check out this new piece on Indian foreign policy challenges by APLN Senior Research Adviser, Frank O'Donnell ⤵

Honoured to announce that my latest article for Global Weekly has been posted! Looking at the complex inter-state dynamics at play in the South China Sea issue, it argues that a concerted diplomatic effort by all parties is preferable to an inherently unstable maintenance of the current situation. Give it a read below!

Avan Fata: Towards a Zero-Sum Game? The South China Sea Conundrum The question of the South China Sea remains one of the most pertinent challenges facing the world. Tensions over the disputed territories encompassed by China’s ‘nine-dash line’ have drawn both regional powers and Western states into a geopolitical question which continues to verge on political deadlock. How can these tensions be resolved and what does the future of ASEAN-China relations look like? https://lnkd.in/e7mpC7uq #geopolitics #China

They say a week in politics is a long time....as the world is frozen and slumbers into the 8th week of tragedy, human suffering and carnage in #WestAsia aka #MiddleEast....even an extra minute is too long.... Many are biting their fingers with trepidation and asking "What Next?" Among them the rush of Arab and #GCC Foreign Ministers to Beijing, to discuss the recent conflict...the key Q is ... Can #China broker a #peace and bring out her magic wand for #ConflictResolution? Can 🇨🇳 repeat the entente between 🇸🇦 & 🇮🇷 ? In most cases and in order to set expectations, and to know where one is going , one should understand where he or she is coming from...to understand if China has the necessary insights or not....where better to start than going back to... 10 Years ago to 2013 and to this amazing paper by Mohammed Alsudairi one of our esteemed former guests and contributors on #BRIDialogues in which he unpacks China 🇮🇱 relations....does China have the clout, candour and calling to intervene? Yes, "A week in politics is a long time", but precious insights are timeless. #G77 #GlobalSouth #geopolitics #foreigndirectinvestment Alexander von Humboldt Foundation King Faisal School The University of Hong Kong https://lnkd.in/eWSxe4mN

Geopolitical Updates Important for International Business As the third Belt and Road Forum takes place in Beijing on October 17, 2023, I've been keeping an eye on expected heads of state in attendance according to news reports: Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet Chilean President Gabriel Boric Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban Indonesian President Joko Widodo Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev Lao Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith Pakistani Prime Minister Anwar-ul-Haq Kakar Russian President Vladimir Putin Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev For those of us in international trade, it pays to pause and consider the implications if serving customers in any of these markets. Keeping abreast of geopolitical movements and developments is crucial for informed decision making. Otherwise, we risk reacting to changes retroactively or relying on hearsay. Staying plugged into reliable news sources allows businesses to strategize proactively about opportunities arising from high-level forums like this Belt and Road meeting. Discussing these types of updates among professional networks can also spark new perspectives or partnerships. I encourage others to share insights from their areas of global engagement. #BeltandRoadInitiative #BRIForum #GlobalTrade #InternationalBusiness #Geopolitics #TradeDeals #EmergingMarkets #DoingBusinessAbroad #MarketIntelligence #BusinessNetworking #TradeConnections #TradeOpportunities #GlobalEconomy #ChinaPakistanEconomicCorridor #OneBeltOneRoad #AsiaInfrastructureInvestmentBank

Sun 2024-08-04 16:44 Statement by G7 Foreign Ministers on the situation in the Middle East August 4, 2024 Ottawa, Ontario – Global Affairs Canada “We, the G7 Foreign Ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States of America) together with the High Representative of the The EU, express our deep concern at the escalation of tensions in the Middle East, which risks triggering a wider conflict in the region. “We once again urge all parties concerned to refrain from perpetuating the current destructive cycle of retaliatory violence, reduce tensions and engage constructively on the path to de-escalation. No country or nation would gain from further escalation in the Middle East. » Contacts Media Relations Department Global Affairs Canada media@international.gc.ca Follow us on Twitter: @CanadaPE Like us on Facebook: Canada's Foreign Policy – Global Affairs Canada