The vice president says the priority is on evacuating Americans and vulnerable Afghans and it shouldn’t get distracted by questions over what went wrong in the chaotic U.S. exit from Afghanistan.
Podcast: The history behind Kamala Harris, ‘Do not come’ and GuatemalaSingapore is the anchor of the U.S. naval presence in Southeast Asia and has a deep trade partnership with the U.S., but the country also seeks to maintain strong ties with China and a position of neutrality amid increasingly frosty U.S.-China relations.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin made their first overseas trips to Japan and South Korea. Austin traveled to Singapore, Vietnam and the Philippines last month and vowed U.S. support against Beijing’s intrusions in the South China Sea.
If China becomes the main focal point, he said, “that makes it harder for our friends to move forward across the region, not only in Singapore and Vietnam but beyond that.”
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Kamala Harris says the U.S. is 'singularly focused' on evacuating Americans and Afghan alliesHarris spoke to reporters during a joint press conference with Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong following an earlier meeting.
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Kamala Harris says the U.S. is 'singularly focused' on evacuating Americans and Afghan alliesHarris spoke to reporters during a joint press conference with Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong following an earlier meeting.
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US VP Harris: Focus must stay on Afghan evacuationVice Pres. Kamala Harris asserts that the U.S. must maintain its focus on evacuating Americans and vulnerable Afghans and shouldn’t get distracted by questions over what went wrong in the chaotic U.S. exit from Afghanistan.
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Harris says US ‘singularly focused’ on Afghanistan evacuationsUS Vice President Kamala Harris is in Singapore for the first working day of her trip to Southeast Asia which aims to convince leaders in Singapore and Vietnam that Washington’s commitment to Southeast Asia is firm and not a parallel to Afghanistan.
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