US EditionBiden cancels planned visit to Australia, Papua New Guinea to focus on debt limit talks
- US President Joe Biden has cancelled his planned trip to Australia and Papua New Guinea, but will attend the G7 Summit in Japan this week.
- Biden will return to the US following the G7 summit to engage with Congressional leaders in talks to avoid default, caused by the United States government's debt ceiling crisis.
- The White House has made clear that defaulting on US obligations would have damaging effects that stretch well beyond economic concerns, with negotiations on raising the nation's borrowing limit yet to be resolved.
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Hopes for historic Pacific visit dashed after President Joe Biden cancels trip to Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea had declared next Monday a public holiday in anticipation of an historic visit by U.S. President Joe Biden and other leaders from the region. Police were tightening security, billboards were going up, and people were getting ready to sing and dance in the streets. Expectations were high…
Hopes for historic Pacific visit dashed after Biden cancels trip to Papua New Guinea
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Papua New Guinea had declared next Monday a public holiday in anticipation of an historic visit by U.S. President Joe Biden and other leaders from the region. Police were tightening security, billboards were going up, and people were getting ready to sing and dance in the streets. Expectations were high for what would have been the first visit by a sitting U.S. president to any Pacific Island nation. “I am very hon…
Biden canceled a trip to Papua New Guinea. The White House is on the defensive
President Biden was supposed to go to Australia and stop in Papua New Guinea along the way. Debt ceiling talks scuttled those plans. But the White House says criticism is overdone.(Image credit: Jess Rapfogel/AP)
Biden scraps planned visit to Australia, Papua New Guinea to focus on debt limit talks - Georgia Asian Times
Washington DC, May 17, 2023 — President Joe Biden said Tuesday he’s curtailing his upcoming trip to the Indo-Pacific, scrapping what was to be a historic stop in Papua New Guinea as well as a visit to Australia for a gathering with fellow leaders of the so-called Quad partnership so he can focus on debt limit talks in Washington. The scuttling of two of the three legs of the overseas trip is a foreign policy setback for an administration that ha…
Biden scraps planned visit to Australia, Papua New Guinea to focus on debt limit talks
By AAMER MADHANI and ZEKE MILLER (Associated Press) WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Tuesday he’s curtailing his upcoming trip to the Indo-Pacific, scrapping what was to be a historic stop in Papua New Guinea as well as a visit to Australia for a gathering with fellow leaders of the so-called Quad partnership so he can focus on debt limit talks in Washington. The scuttling of two of the three legs of the overseas trip is a foreign poli…
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