US President Joe Biden’s move is a setback for an administration that has made putting a greater focus on the Pacific region central to its global outreach. But he will still visit Japan.
is curtailing his upcoming trip to the Indo-Pacific, scrapping what was to be a historic stop in Papua New Guinea as well as a visit to Australia so he can focus on debt limit talks in Washington, say three people familiar with the matter.
The cancellation is a foreign policy setback for an administration that has made putting a greater focus on the Pacific region central to its global outreach. He had been due to gather with fellow leaders of the so-called Quad partnership.Mr Biden still plans to depart on Wednesday for Hiroshima, Japan, for a Group of Seven summit with leaders from some of the world’s leading economies.
Mr Biden had been scheduled to travel on to Papua New Guinea to meet Pacific Island leaders and then to Australia for a meeting of the leaders of the Quad partnership, made up of the US, Australia, India and Japan. The Papua New Guinea stop would have been the first visit by a sitting US president to the island country of more than 9 million people.
The Quad partnership first formed during the response to the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami that killed about 230,000 people. Since coming into office, Mr Biden has tried to reinvigorate the Quad as part of his broader effort to put greater US focus on the Pacific and counter increasing economic and military assertiveness by China in the region.
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