Kurt Campbell, the White House’s top Asia official, hastily traveled to the Solomon Islands to pressure the tiny Oceanian country to refuse “a potential security pact with China”, featured in the South China Morning Post with Bloomberg. .
While traveling, the Chinese Guancha, with Xinhua, reported that the agreement was “officially signed”.
In the Philippines, the long-awaited election of Ferdinand Marcos Jr. in early May, which seemed to indicate a distance between the country and China, now runs in the opposite direction. He would “maintain the conciliatory stance” of the current government, headlined the Japanese Nikkei.
More even, in an article below, “Bongbong Marcos will move the Philippines closer to China”.
In Pakistan, after the confusion surrounding the fall of Prime Minister Imran Khan, who held the United States responsible, the new prime minister, Shabazz Sharif, even promised to deepen his country’s relationship with China.
In an interview with Beijing’s Global Times, the Pakistani ambassador described the bilateral relationship as “iron” and a “national consensus”.
And finally, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s India, highlights the newspaper The Hindu (pictured above), “has agreed to participate in the virtual summit of the BRICS group organized by China, weeks after the visit of Chancellor Wang Yi to New Delhi”. It will be in June.
SUMMERS AGAINST RATES
A former member of the Clinton and Obama administrations, economist Lawrence Summers continues to pressure Biden’s team. Now he opened a forum on China at Harvard and later spoke to the CGTN channel:
“We need a much more aggressive approach to lowering tariffs [sobre produtos chineses], which have caused damage to US consumers and competitiveness. The Peterson Institute estimates that a substantial reduction, without revoking everything, could decrease [a inflação americana] by 1.3 points.”
BRAZIL AGAINST SANCTIONS
Reuters news and agricultural outlets in the American Midwest point out that the “ports of Paraná face” congestion with dozens of “ships carrying Russian fertilizers”, which “found a way to reach Brazil despite US sanctions”.
BLOOD BATH
Launching its November “election forecast”, Politico headlined that “Republicans are about to win House and Senate” (above), while the New York Times already speaks of Democratic “bloodbath”.
And The Hill adds that “Biden told Obama he will run” for re-election in 2024.