President Joe Biden will leave today for a shortened overseas trip to Japan -- skipping the pre-planned second half of his trip, which included a stop in Australia and Papua New Guinea.
But the trip he planned didn’t materialize. The standoff over raising the US debt ceiling, which could lead to a first-ever default if not resolved before next month, is proving more pressing. While Biden is leaving Washington on Wednesday for Japan, he’s skipping the pre-planned second half of his trip, which included a stop in Australia and Papua New Guinea.
Tokyo is in talks to open a NATO liaison office, the first of its kind in Asia, the country’s foreign minister told CNN in an exclusive interview on last week, saying Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has made the world less stable. Fourteen months in, however, the invasion is still testing the alliance’s ability to remain united, particularly without a clear path to ending the fighting.
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