Leaders of the world’s two strongest economies met in the present day in Bali. U.S. President Joe Biden sat down for an in-person assembly with China’s autocratic chief Xi Jinping, who just lately secured an unprecedented third time period as Beijing’s Basic Secretary of the Chinese language Communist Celebration. The 2 met Monday on the sidelines of the G20 summit, which this time doesn’t contain Russia’s Vladimir Putin—although worries stemming from his sputtering Ukraine invasion nonetheless loomed like a cloud over occasions in Bali, in response to Reuters.
“There needn’t be a brand new Chilly Conflict,” Biden told reporters afterward. “And I don’t suppose there may be any imminent try on the a part of China to invade Taiwan, and I made it clear that our coverage on Taiwan has not modified in any respect,” the president mentioned. “I made it clear that we need to see cross strait points peacefully resolved.”
By way of U.S. resolve and management on the world stage, Biden said the midterm election outcomes appear to point out a stabilizing democracy that’s “able to play…The Republicans who survived, together with the Democrats, are of the view that we’re gonna keep totally engaged on the planet. And that we, in reality, know what we’re about.”
In terms of North Korea, Biden conveyed a message of solidarity together with his Japanese and South Korean counterparts Sunday in Cambodia, following a gathering of ASEAN leaders. “For years, our international locations have been engaged in a trilateral cooperation out of a shared concern for the nuclear and missile threats North Korea poses to our individuals,” Biden mentioned earlier than the three ducked behind closed doorways. “And we face actual challenges, however our international locations are extra aligned than ever,” he added. Evaluate the White Home’s readouts from these conferences with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, right here; and Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio, right here.
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New: CIA Director William Burns is in Turkey for secretive talks about escalation together with his Russian counterpart, Sergey Naryshkin, Russian each day Kommersant reported on Monday. CNN reached out to the White Home for elaboration, and was instructed Burns will not be there to speak about peace simply but. Slightly, “He’s conveying a message on the results of the usage of nuclear weapons by Russia, and the dangers of escalation to strategic stability,” and “may even increase the instances of unjustly detained U.S. residents.”
The White Home doesn’t suppose Russia is prepared for real peace talks any time quickly. That’s in response to Nationwide Safety Advisor Jake Sullivan, who instructed reporters Saturday, “So long as Russia holds the place that it merely will get to seize as a lot territory because it desires by drive, it’s arduous to see them as a good-faith counterparty in a negotiation.”
“[A]t a 30,000-foot degree,” Sullivan mentioned, “Ukraine is the get together of peace on this battle, and Russia is the get together of conflict. Russia invaded Ukraine. If Russia selected to cease combating in Ukraine and left, it will be the top of the conflict. If Ukraine selected to cease combating and quit, it will be the top of Ukraine.” And that’s why the U.S. and NATO allies vow to proceed arming and supplying Ukraine’s army to assist in giving it the very best place doable in negotiations. Talking of which…
The U.S. introduced one other $400 million in weapons and tools for Ukraine on Thursday. That included HAWK air protection system missiles; 4 Avenger air protection methods and Stinger missiles; extra HIMARS long-range artillery rounds (quantity not specified); 100 extra humvees; 400 grenade launchers; 500 precision-guided 155mm artillery rounds; 21,000 normal 155mm rounds; 10,000 120mm mortar rounds; small arms; chilly climate gear; and extra.
Ukraine’s president made a shock go to to the just lately liberated metropolis of Kherson, within the south, on Monday. After eight months of occupation, the Russian army retreated from the provincial capital final week following two months of Ukrainian advances first within the east round Kharkiv, then nearer to Kherson as October gave option to November.
Subsequent for Russia: It’s going to possible re-prioritize defending occupied territory in Ukraine’s east, across the area referred to as the Donbas, the place some 20,000 troops are regrouping, in response to the Wall Road Journal, reporting Monday.
Evaluate among the army tools Russians left behind or tried to destroy earlier than they retreated throughout the Dnipro river close to Kherson in a brief Twitter thread compiled by RAND Company’s Dara Massicot on Saturday.
See additionally apparent injury to 3 bridges in addition to a dam partially destroyed by retreating Russians round Kherson in these eight photos collected Friday by the industrial satellite tv for pc imaging agency Maxar. Imagery consists of fairly just a few broken sections of the Antonovskiy Bridge throughout the Dnipro River, together with a number of “spans [that] have [been] dropped into the water beneath,” in response to Maxar.
Growing: Russian naval exercise within the Black Sea has dropped considerably, H.I. Sutton of Covert Shores noted Sunday on Twitter, with supporting imagery. The Jerusalem Put up has extra on how Russia appears to have “drastically” in the reduction of on its cruise missile operations from the Black Sea.
For Ukraine’s half, it’s crowd-funding a brand new fleet of drone boats—presumably just like ones allegedly utilized in an assault in late October, in response to Enterprise Insider, reporting Friday. The Conflict Zone has extra on these drone boats, right here.
Zambian officers are quizzing Moscow about how certainly one of its residents was killed combating with Russian prisoners in Ukraine. “The Zambian scholar, who was learning nuclear engineering at a college in Moscow, was convicted and jailed for 9 years and 6 months” due to an unspecified offense again in 2020, Reuters studies. Tiny bit extra, right here.
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And lastly: Turkish officers say they’ve taken a Syrian girl into custody after a day bombing in Istanbul killed six individuals and wounded 81 others on Sunday. The arrested girl allegedly sat on a bench for 40 minutes earlier than departing moments earlier than the obvious detonation. The BBC studies she is amongst practically 4 dozen individuals detained by police to this point within the wake of the bombing.
Turkish authorities say the Kurdistan Staff’ Celebration, or PKK, is answerable for the assault; the group denied any function. However Reuters studies police say the arrested girl admitted beneath questioning to being “skilled by Kurdish militants and enter[ing] Turkey by means of Afrin, one other northern Syrian city.” Learn extra, right here.