diplomacy

WASHINGTON — President Biden on Friday hosted Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga at the White House in his first visit from a foreign leader amid tensions between the US and China. Suga, who replaced longtime…

Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin arrived in Tokyo on Monday as part of a four-day trip to reiterate the US’ commitment to its allies in the face of China’s expanding influence in the…

Turkey lashed out on Thursday over comments by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken indicating a sterner stance from Washington over Turkish activities in the eastern Mediterranean. “We have called out actions, including by Turkey,…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The South Korean and U.S. militaries are scaling back their annual exercises this month due to the COVID-19 pandemic and to support diplomacy focusing on North Korea’s nuclear program, officials said…

Last week, Taliban deputy leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar published an open letter, calling on President Joe Biden to honor the 2020 Doha agreement reached by his predecessor Donald Trump and withdraw international troops from…

It’s hard to go a day without some new headline about Iran’s nuclear efforts.On the one hand, the US signals it wants to strengthen the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or Iran deal, that was signed in 2015. The US left…

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi is calling on the U.S. to lift restrictions on trade and people-to-people contacts while ceasing what Beijing considers unwarranted interference in areas such as Taiwan, Hong Kong, Xinjiang and TibetByThe…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Secretary of State George P. Shultz, a titan of American academia, business and diplomacy who spent most of the 1980s trying to improve Cold War relations with the Soviet Union and forging a course for peace in…

President Joe Biden made clear Thursday that the world should expect a more diplomatically engaged United States moving forward, starting with him putting the brakes on Donald Trump’s plan to withdraw thousands of U.S.…

NEW DELHI - In an unusual diplomatic initiative, India has donated millions of doses of the British-developed AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine being produced in the country to neighboring South Asian nations. The “vaccine diplomacy”…