{"id":1406433,"date":"2022-03-29T07:31:33","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T11:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1406433"},"modified":"2022-03-29T07:31:57","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T11:31:57","slug":"joe-biden-to-embrace-self-defined-leader-of-the-free-world-role-in-talks-with-singapore-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-to-embrace-self-defined-leader-of-the-free-world-role-in-talks-with-singapore-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden to Embrace Self-Defined &#039;Leader of the Free World&#039; Role in Talks 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\">32<\/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%2Fjoe-biden-to-embrace-self-defined-leader-of-the-free-world-role-in-talks-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=1406433&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--><p class=\"subheading\">Five days after the White House cast President Joe Biden as a man on a mission to be \u201cleader of the free world\u201d ahead of his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/28\/world-leaders-rebuke-biden-after-sloppy-ukraine-speech-poland\/\">disastrous<\/a> tour of Europe he returns to the diplomatic stage Tuesday to meet visiting Singapore Prime Minister\u00a0Lee Hsien Loong.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0White House has announced the two are scheduled meet in the Oval Office at 10:35 AM before later making a joint media appearance.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Asia, China, Russia and Ukraine are all on the agenda for the two leaders.<\/p>\n<p>The get-together has been touted as an opportunity to shone a light on Washington\u2019s long-touted \u201cpivot to Asia\u201d while helping Biden build on his efforts to reassure the American people he is a stable force able to keep the country safe from external threats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are very happy\u201d to host Lee, a senior U.S. official <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/press-briefings\/2022\/03\/29\/background-press-call-by-a-senior-administration-official-previewing-the-visit-of-prime-minister-lee-of-singapore\/\">said<\/a> by way of preview Monday night, \u201cbecause we believe that the U.S.-Singapore strategic partnership is extremely strong and valuable to both countries, and it has supported peace and prosperity throughout the Indo-Pacific.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A majority of Americans believe the world is less stable since Biden assumed office, a Wednesday TIPP poll revealed. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FJ7WtKWlVC\">https:\/\/t.co\/FJ7WtKWlVC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1506782382313152517?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 23, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>AFP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/biden-eyes-asia-challenges-in-singapore-pms-visit\/\">reports<\/a> despite the concerns over China and its aggressive moves in the Indo-Pacific region, Ukraine is still expected to loom large.<\/p>\n<p>Singapore announced in February it was joining other pro-Western powers in imposing sanctions on Russia, including blocking financial transactions.<\/p>\n<p>The sanctions include restrictions on some exports and a ban on financial institutions from doing business with Russian banks.<\/p>\n<p>The wealthy city-state rarely sanctions other countries without U.N. backing, but Foreign Affairs Minister Vivian Balakrishnan cited the \u201cunprecedented gravity\u201d of the crisis.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe president and prime minister will be meeting at a very critical time, one in which the rules-based international order faces (an) unprecedented challenge,\u201d the U.S. official told reporters on condition of anonymity, even as Biden and his staff sought to salvage something from his bungled tour of Europe and his off-script moments.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Biden Clarifies Again: Call for Removing Putin Was &#8220;Aspiration&#8221; Not Policy Change <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UoUd4LepHn\">pic.twitter.com\/UoUd4LepHn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1508591938353696770?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 28, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Russia\u2019s attack on Ukraine, which Putin says he wants to \u201cdemilitarize,\u201d has deeply shocked U.S. allies beyond Europe, including Australia and Japan.<\/p>\n<p>As Breitbart News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/24\/endless-summits-joe-biden-seeks-to-lead-free-world-at-european-meetings\/\">reported<\/a>, last week Biden was described as\u00a0a man leading the free world as he began a series of summit meetings in Europe with the promise to \u201chold Russia accountable\u201d for its invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The results hardly matched the ambition.<\/p>\n<p>Biden promised last Thursday he would respond \u201cin kind\u201d if Putin deployed chemical weapons against Ukrainians, meaning the use chemical weapons against Russia could potentially be invoked. The White House walked back the statement the next day.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20430866\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-1239518295.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Biden kisses a child while meeting refugees of Russia\u2019s war with Ukraine at PGE Narodowy Stadium in Warsaw, Poland on March 26, 2022. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI\/AFP via Getty)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Biden then told the 82nd Airborne Division in Poland they may be deployed to Ukraine, a statement that contradicted Biden\u2019s promise not to send Americans to die protesting Ukrainian borders.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the trip, Biden\u2019s unscripted call for regime change in Russia led to fears it could embolden Russian President Vladimir Putin to escalate war tensions with NATO.<\/p>\n<p>Europe\u2019s leaders were left to clean up that particular diplomatic crisis as Biden flew home.<\/p>\n<h5><em><span>Follow Simon Kent on Twitter:<\/span> <a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SunSimonKent\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @SunSimonKent<\/a> <span>or e-mail to: skent@breitbart.com<\/span><br \/><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five days after the White House cast President Joe Biden as a man on a mission to be \u201cleader of the free world\u201d ahead of his disastrous tour of Europe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82,"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-1406433","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\/1406433","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\/82"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1406433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406433\/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=1406433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1406433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1406433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}