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South Carolina’s Lindsey Graham, a Republican who sits on the Senate Appropriations Committee, had led with this line of attack earlier on Thursday, when he warned about rising military threats posed by Beijing and Moscow, and called the bill passed by the House “a win for China”. Some lawmakers, mostly …

US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy gathered top allies behind closed doors at the Capitol as negotiators pushed for a deal that would raise the nation’s borrowing limit and avoid a catastrophic default. Source link

Democrat leader Chuck Schumer called the ban a ‘troubling use of economic coercion’, and says he wants to make clear to Beijing that such behaviour is ‘unacceptable’. Source link

The South Carolina lawmaker is seeking to become the first black president from his party, vowing to bring back a way of life under threat by Biden’s Democrats. Source link

Less than two weeks remain until a June 1 deadline, when the Treasury Department has warned that the federal government could be unable to pay all its debts. Source link

US president says group agrees on diversifying supply chains and de-risking without decoupling. Source link

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol paid tribute to tens of thousands of Koreans who died in the attack 78 years ago, and later held talks with US President Joe Biden. Source link

US President Joe Biden’s administration is reaching for a deal with Republicans led by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. The sides are up against a deadline as soon as June 1 to raise its borrowing limit, now at US$31 trillion. Source link

From left, US President Joe Biden, Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi hold a Quad meeting on the sidelines of the G7 summit, at the Grand Prince Hotel in Hiroshima, Japan on Saturday. Photo: Pool Photo via AP Source link

US president’s truncated visit is an ‘unwelcome reminder’ that Washington’s pledges to the region are at the mercy of ‘increasingly fickle politics on the US home front’. Source link