{"id":1406294,"date":"2022-03-29T06:46:04","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T10:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1406294"},"modified":"2022-03-29T06:46:12","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T10:46:12","slug":"biden-to-broach-russias-war-in-ukraine-with-singapore-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-to-broach-russias-war-in-ukraine-with-singapore-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden to broach Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine with Singapore PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-to-broach-russias-war-in-ukraine-with-singapore-pm%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1406294&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2022-03-29T091558Z_2_LYNXNPEI2S0E3_RTROPTP_0_UKRAINE-CRISIS-BIDEN-PUTIN_1.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about Ukraine while announcing proposed budget for fiscal year 2023 at the White House in Washington\" \/><br \/>FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden responds to a question about Ukraine during an event to announce his budget proposal for fiscal year 2023, in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., March 28, 2022. REUTERS\/Kevin Lamarque\/File Photo<\/div>\n<p>March 29, 2022<\/p>\n<p>By Alexandra Alper<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) \u2013     U.S. President Joe Biden plans to discuss Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine and China\u2019s role in the Indo-Pacific with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong of Singapore at the White House on Tuesday, a senior administration official said.<\/p>\n<p>Lee, who will later meet with U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, will join Biden in an Oval Office meeting before the leaders make a joint statement, the White House said.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on a briefing call, the official, who declined to be identified, said the United States was very pleased with Singapore\u2019s decision to impose sanctions and export controls on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine last month. <\/p>\n<p>Russia calls its actions in Ukraine a \u201cspecial operation\u201d that it says are not designed to occupy territory but to destroy its southern neighbour\u2019s military capabilities and capture what it regards as dangerous nationalists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are very happy with what Singapore has done and I think that the key is going to be to continue looking for ways in which we can expand our cooperation on this and other issues,\u201d the official said.<\/p>\n<p>Biden had been due to host leaders of the 10-nation Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), of which Singapore is a member, this week, but the summit was postponed because not all leaders could attend on the March 28 and 29 dates announced by the White House.<\/p>\n<p>The official reiterated that the White House is working to reschedule the event. \u201cWe believe the clock is ticking and we want to try and get this done,\u201d the official said, noting there would be \u201cannouncements\u201d during Lee\u2019s visit while declining to offer details.<\/p>\n<p>Lee\u2019s trip comes after Vice President Harris, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo visited Singapore last year. Biden last spoke with Lee on the sidelines of the Group of Twenty (G20) summit in Rome.<\/p>\n<p>Singapore is a key financial and trading center and has been keen to hear details of U.S. plans for an Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) in a region Washington says remains a key priority despite the Ukraine crisis.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration announced an Indo-Pacific strategy in February in which it vowed to commit more diplomatic and security resources to the region to counter what it sees as China\u2019s bid to create a regional sphere of influence.<\/p>\n<p>The document reiterated plans to launch the IPEF early this year, but few details have emerged, and the administration has been reluctant to offer the increased market access Asian countries desire, seeing this as threatening American jobs.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the official said the framework is expected to come up in discussions during Lee\u2019s visit, but offered little detail. When asked about market access, the official said the Biden administration was \u201clooking for ways that can be done using existing frameworks rather than new market access.\u201d <\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Alexandra Alper; Editing by Karishma Singh)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden responds to a question about Ukraine during an event to announce his budget proposal for fiscal year 2023, in the State Dining Room at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":287,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1406294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/287"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1406294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1406294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1406294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1406294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}