Biden also raised concerns about activities at Ream Naval Base, whose expansion Cambodian officials have described as a collaborative effort between it and China.Īnother topic Biden focused on was Myanmar, where the military overthrew the civilian government in February 2021 and arrested its democratically elected leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. In a statement after the meeting, the White House said Biden urged the prime minister - an authoritarian ruler in a nominally democratic nation - to “reopen civic and political space” before its 2023 elections.īiden, according to the White House, also pushed Hun Sen to release activists including Theary Seng, a Cambodian-American lawyer who was convicted of treason. The East Asia Summit also included the leaders of Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Japan and others.īiden raised human rights concerns in Cambodia when he met with Hun Sen on Saturday. will compete vigorously with China while keeping lines of communication open and ensuring that competition does not veer into conflict, while reaffirming the importance of peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait, the White House said. President Joe Biden underscored that freedom of navigation and overflight must be respected in the East China and South China seas and that all disputes must be resolved peacefully and according to international law, according to the White House.īiden said the U.S. In Sunday’s East Asia Summit, which ran concurrently with the ASEAN meeting and included both the U.S. The flights come as part of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s stepped up efforts to intimidate Taiwan by regularly flying fighter planes and bombers near the island and firing missiles into the sea around it. China protests US surveillance plane's Taiwan Strait flightĪnd on Saturday, China’s military flew 36 fighter jets and bombers near Taiwan, ten of which flew across the median line in the Taiwan Strait that separates the island from the mainland, according to Taiwanese officials.
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