President Joe Biden will return to the United States after the G7 summit concludes on Sunday.
of the Pacific and tried to ink a wide-ranging cooperation framework with 10 governments, in the end walking away with a number of bilateral economic agreements.President Joe Biden disembarks Air Force One upon his arrival at the U.S. Marine Corps base in Iwakuni on May 18, 2023, ahead of the G7 summit in Hiroshima, Japan.The U.S. response has included a new regional partnership and a pledge of over $810 million in development funds for Pacific Island countries.
Washington also committed to expanding its diplomatic presence in the region, beginning this past February with the opening of an embassy in the Solomon Islands after a 30-year absence. Earlier this month, the U.S. opened an embassy in Tonga, with additional embassies planned in Kiribati and Vanuatu, which are currently handled by U.S. diplomats in Fiji and PNG, respectively.
"The reasoning behind Biden's last-minute cancelation is certainly understandable, even if some regional observers fear Washington may be falling back into old patterns of neglect," said Craig Singleton, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. "China has long parroted that democratic governance is dysfunctional. Indeed, Beijing's broader discourse strategy aims to alter global perceptions about Chinese autocracy and Western democracy, namely by comparing, contrasting, and consistently misrepresenting"China will almost certainly make messaging hay of the cancelation and the ongoing debt ceiling crisis to undermine the United States' reputation as a responsible global stakeholder," Singleton said.
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