Washington: President Joe Biden Is out to maintain a global coalition punishing Russia for its aggression Ukraine As he leaves on a five-day visit to Europe, as the four-month-old war shows no signs of ending and its blows to global food and energy supplies deepen.
Biden first attends a meeting of the Group of Seven major economic powers in Germany’s Bavarian Alps and later travels to Madrid for a summit with 30 leaders. nato Country. The visit comes as a global coalition to strengthen Ukraine and punish Russia for its aggression has shown signs of horror amid skyrocketing inflation in food and energy prices caused by the conflict.
The Ukraine war has entered a more critical phase since Biden’s last visit to Europe in March, just weeks after Russia launched its offensive. At the time, he met with the Allies in Brussels as Ukraine was under regular bombing and tried to reassure Eastern Europe partners in Poland that they would not be the next to face an incursion by Moscow.
Russia’s subsequent retreat from western Ukraine and regrouping in the east has shifted the conflict into artillery battles and bloody house-to-house fighting in the Donbass region, the country’s industrial heartland.
While US officials see broad consensus on keeping pressure on Russia and maintaining support for Ukraine in the near term, they see Biden’s visit as an opportunity to align strategy for both the conflict and its global impact. Moving on to winter and beyond.
Allies differ on whether their goal is simply to restore peace or to force Russia to pay a steep price for preventing a repeat of the conflict.
John Kirby, a spokesman for the White House National Security Council, said: “Every country speaks for itself, every country worries about what they are prepared to do or not.” “But as far as alliances are concerned, it has never really happened. It has been stronger and more viable than it is today.”
Ukraine’s President, Volodymyr Zelensky, is set to address both summits by video. The US and its allies have sent billions of dollars in military aid to its country and imposed tough sanctions on Russia over the invasion.
Kirby said the allies would make new “commitments” during the summit to further isolate Russia from the global economy. It aims to acquire technology for Moscow to rebuild depleted arsenals in Ukraine and crack down on sanctions evasion by Russia and its oligarchs.
The G-7 summit has traditionally put global finance issues front and center, but amid rising inflation in the US and Europe, some concrete action is expected.
“There are different drivers of inflation in these different economies, different things that can be used to address it,” said Josh Lipsky, director of the Atlantic Council’s Geoeconomics Center. He predicts a “lack of ability to do something coordinated on inflation, other than to really talk about the problem”.
Biden has blamed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine for the price rise, particularly in energy markets, as US and allied sanctions have limited Moscow’s ability to sell its oil and gas supplies. US and European officials said maintaining a Western resolve would only be more challenging as the war continues and life-saving issues create political headaches for domestic leaders.
Finding ways to transition from Russian energy to other sources – without setting long-standing goals for tackling climate change – is bound to be an important discussion point.
Russia was once a member of the G-8 at that time. It was expelled from the group after Ukraine invaded the Crimean peninsula in 2014, a move that exacerbated the current crisis.
The top priority of Western officials visiting the summit is to find a way to bring Ukraine’s vast grain crop to the world market, because United Nations And others warned of tens of millions of people starving to death due to tight supplies. The most impressive changes would require an agreement to stop targeting food and food infrastructure from Russia, as well as agreeing to establish a maritime corridor to allow grain exports from Ukraine.
In Madrid, Biden will help fuel a NATO effort to welcome Finland and Sweden into the alliance following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, two historically neutral democracies seeking the security of a mutual-defense union.
It remains to be seen whether Biden will meet with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has indicated that he plans to block the two countries’ entry into NATO unless he makes concessions. Adding new members requires the unanimous support of existing NATO members.
US officials have maintained optimism that the two countries will be welcomed into the alliance, but have downplayed hopes of success in Madrid.
Biden often talks of being in a generational conflict between the world’s democracies and autocrats that will set the global agenda for decades to come. He aims to use the visit to show that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has “strengthened” democracies in both Moscow and Beijing over threats from autocracy.
Biden is also securing an important step by NATO to recognize China as an emerging challenger to the coalition. China’s formal reference to NATO’s new “strategic concept”, the first update of its guiding principles since 2010, complements efforts by several presidents to expand the alliance’s focus to China, even as That even in the face of a rapidly growing Russia.
In a symbolic move, NATO has invited Pacific leaders from Japan, South Korea, New Zealand and Australia to the summit.
“Rather than distracting us from the Indo-Pacific and China, the president’s leadership with regards to supporting Ukraine has really inspired leaders in that region and our efforts in Europe and Asia effectively,” Kirby told reporters. attached to it.” “And those Asian countries that will participate in the NATO summit, I think, speak a lot about that fact.”
Biden is set to reassess his idea for a global infrastructure investment program to counter China’s influence in the developing world, which he previously called “Build Back a Better World” and the 2021 G-7 summit was introduced in
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin accused NATO of trying to “start a new Cold War” and warned against the coalition “drawing ideological lines that could prompt confrontation.”
Biden first attends a meeting of the Group of Seven major economic powers in Germany’s Bavarian Alps and later travels to Madrid for a summit with 30 leaders. nato Country. The visit comes as a global coalition to strengthen Ukraine and punish Russia for its aggression has shown signs of horror amid skyrocketing inflation in food and energy prices caused by the conflict.
The Ukraine war has entered a more critical phase since Biden’s last visit to Europe in March, just weeks after Russia launched its offensive. At the time, he met with the Allies in Brussels as Ukraine was under regular bombing and tried to reassure Eastern Europe partners in Poland that they would not be the next to face an incursion by Moscow.
Russia’s subsequent retreat from western Ukraine and regrouping in the east has shifted the conflict into artillery battles and bloody house-to-house fighting in the Donbass region, the country’s industrial heartland.
While US officials see broad consensus on keeping pressure on Russia and maintaining support for Ukraine in the near term, they see Biden’s visit as an opportunity to align strategy for both the conflict and its global impact. Moving on to winter and beyond.
Allies differ on whether their goal is simply to restore peace or to force Russia to pay a steep price for preventing a repeat of the conflict.
John Kirby, a spokesman for the White House National Security Council, said: “Every country speaks for itself, every country worries about what they are prepared to do or not.” “But as far as alliances are concerned, it has never really happened. It has been stronger and more viable than it is today.”
Ukraine’s President, Volodymyr Zelensky, is set to address both summits by video. The US and its allies have sent billions of dollars in military aid to its country and imposed tough sanctions on Russia over the invasion.
Kirby said the allies would make new “commitments” during the summit to further isolate Russia from the global economy. It aims to acquire technology for Moscow to rebuild depleted arsenals in Ukraine and crack down on sanctions evasion by Russia and its oligarchs.
The G-7 summit has traditionally put global finance issues front and center, but amid rising inflation in the US and Europe, some concrete action is expected.
“There are different drivers of inflation in these different economies, different things that can be used to address it,” said Josh Lipsky, director of the Atlantic Council’s Geoeconomics Center. He predicts a “lack of ability to do something coordinated on inflation, other than to really talk about the problem”.
Biden has blamed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine for the price rise, particularly in energy markets, as US and allied sanctions have limited Moscow’s ability to sell its oil and gas supplies. US and European officials said maintaining a Western resolve would only be more challenging as the war continues and life-saving issues create political headaches for domestic leaders.
Finding ways to transition from Russian energy to other sources – without setting long-standing goals for tackling climate change – is bound to be an important discussion point.
Russia was once a member of the G-8 at that time. It was expelled from the group after Ukraine invaded the Crimean peninsula in 2014, a move that exacerbated the current crisis.
The top priority of Western officials visiting the summit is to find a way to bring Ukraine’s vast grain crop to the world market, because United Nations And others warned of tens of millions of people starving to death due to tight supplies. The most impressive changes would require an agreement to stop targeting food and food infrastructure from Russia, as well as agreeing to establish a maritime corridor to allow grain exports from Ukraine.
In Madrid, Biden will help fuel a NATO effort to welcome Finland and Sweden into the alliance following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, two historically neutral democracies seeking the security of a mutual-defense union.
It remains to be seen whether Biden will meet with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has indicated that he plans to block the two countries’ entry into NATO unless he makes concessions. Adding new members requires the unanimous support of existing NATO members.
US officials have maintained optimism that the two countries will be welcomed into the alliance, but have downplayed hopes of success in Madrid.
Biden often talks of being in a generational conflict between the world’s democracies and autocrats that will set the global agenda for decades to come. He aims to use the visit to show that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has “strengthened” democracies in both Moscow and Beijing over threats from autocracy.
Biden is also securing an important step by NATO to recognize China as an emerging challenger to the coalition. China’s formal reference to NATO’s new “strategic concept”, the first update of its guiding principles since 2010, complements efforts by several presidents to expand the alliance’s focus to China, even as That even in the face of a rapidly growing Russia.
In a symbolic move, NATO has invited Pacific leaders from Japan, South Korea, New Zealand and Australia to the summit.
“Rather than distracting us from the Indo-Pacific and China, the president’s leadership with regards to supporting Ukraine has really inspired leaders in that region and our efforts in Europe and Asia effectively,” Kirby told reporters. attached to it.” “And those Asian countries that will participate in the NATO summit, I think, speak a lot about that fact.”
Biden is set to reassess his idea for a global infrastructure investment program to counter China’s influence in the developing world, which he previously called “Build Back a Better World” and the 2021 G-7 summit was introduced in
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin accused NATO of trying to “start a new Cold War” and warned against the coalition “drawing ideological lines that could prompt confrontation.”