Strategy to limit China’s sphere of influence seen at odds with protectionist sentiment in US.
During the summit, leaders were encouraged to make pledges and commitments to bolster democracy and human rights.
The virtual event continues Friday amid the rising of authoritarianism globally.
'We have a responsibility to the world as well as to our people,' Biden tells Xi during the meeting.
US plans to provide up to $102 million to expand strategic partnership with the 10-nation bloc during summit.
Virtual summit between President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping is being planned for later this year.
The Biden administration announced shipments of millions of Moderna vaccine donations for Guatemala and Vietnam on Tuesday, after pledging to donate 4 million doses to Indonesia last week.
President Joe Biden was in Oklahoma on June 01, becoming the first sitting U.S. president to commemorate the anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre, the destruction in 1921 of a prosperous Black community by a white mob that left up to 300 people dead and thousands homeless.
Strategic competition with China was one of the main issues discussed in President Joe Biden's Friday meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, the first foreign leader to visit the White House since Biden took office.
As the U.S. nears reaching its goal of vaccinating 200 million Americans by the end of April, the Biden administration is taking more steps toward helping other nations by appointing a coordinator for its global COVID-19 response.
The U.S., Japan, Australia and India, the grouping also known as the Quad, announced Friday financing agreements to support ramping up production in India of up to a billion doses of coronavirus vaccine, to be used in Southeast Asian countries.
Chinese vaccine diplomacy among top agenda items in President Biden’s virtual Quadrilateral Security Dialogue summit with leaders of Japan, India, and Australia.
Donald Trump slammed President Joe Biden’s policies and reaffirmed leadership of the Republican Party at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Florida on Sunday, his first major speech after leaving office.
As Donald Trump’s impeachment trial nears the end, there is renewed focus on threats from white supremacist and other groups who stormed the U.S. Capitol last month.
The U.S. slapped additional sanctions on Myanmar following a military coup on February 1. The crisis has emerged as an early test of President Joe Biden’s foreign policy as his administration pledges to defend democracy and seeks to counter China’s rising influence in the region.
President Joe Biden reversed several Trump administration health care policies Thursday, including one that restricted access to abortion both inside and outside the United States.
Exit polls show that women helped secure President-elect Joe Biden’s electoral victory.
Under the Trump administration, the U.S. has focused on bilateral trade relations and withdrawn from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a multilateral trade agreement promoted by the Obama administration to counter China's influence in the Asia-Pacific region.
President-elect Joe Biden has chosen women to fill many key Cabinet posts as well as his entire senior communications team, part of his campaign promise to ensure full inclusion and gender equality.
Biden is pressing ahead with the transition process even though President Donald Trump has yet to formally concede.
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