{"id":1988836,"date":"2023-08-02T15:07:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T19:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harris-courts-indo-pacific-partner-with-biden-on-vacation\/"},"modified":"2023-08-02T15:09:16","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T19:09:16","slug":"harris-courts-indo-pacific-partner-with-biden-on-vacation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harris-courts-indo-pacific-partner-with-biden-on-vacation\/","title":{"rendered":"Harris seeks Indo-Pacific ally during Biden&#8217;s vacation."},"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\">14<\/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%2Fharris-courts-indo-pacific-partner-with-biden-on-vacation%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=1988836&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--><h2>Harris \u200dSteps into the\u2063 Spotlight with Biden at the Beach<\/h2>\n<p>Vice President Kamala \u2062Harris\u2063 hosted Mongolian Prime \u200dMinister Luvsannamsrain Oyun-Erdene\u2063 for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harris-visits-latin-america-to-tackle-migration-corruption\/\" title=\"Harris Visits Latin America to Tackle Migration, Corruption\">bilateral meetings<\/a> at the White House\u2064 on\u200d Wednesday while President Joe\u2063 Biden continues his August vacation in \u200dRehoboth Beach, Delaware.<\/p>\n<p>With Biden at the beach, Harris has stepped in to fill the president&#8217;s public-facing responsibilities, including delivering a rebuttal to Gov.\u200c Ron \u2063DeSantis&#8217;s (R-FL) education reforms in Florida on Tuesday\u200c and a trip to Kenosha County, Wisconsin, to tout\u200b the administration&#8217;s\u200b &#8220;Internet \u200dfor All&#8221; broadband expansion plan.<\/p>\n<h3>Strengthening Ties in the Indo-Pacific Region<\/h3>\n<p>Harris noted \u2063during remarks alongside \u2063Luvsannamsrain that the United States and Mongolia will sign an Open Skies\u200d flight\u200c agreement, but the bulk of her comments focused on solidifying ties with allies in the \u200cIndo-Pacific \u2062region in the face of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-says-truncated-south-pacific-trip-not-a-win-for-china\/\" title=\"Biden says truncated South Pacific trip not a 'win' for China\">growing threat presented<\/a> \u2062by Beijing, \u2063though she did not specifically name China in her remarks.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Mongolia has been \u200ca reliable democracy and friend in the Indo-Pacific for more\u2064 than three decades, and the partnership between\u2064 our countries has helped to\u2064 ensure stability and prosperity \u200din the region,&#8221; she declared. &#8220;The American people have a profound stake \u2063in the\u2064 future of the Indo-Pacific as a proud Pacific power. It is in our vital\u200d interest to promote an Indo-Pacific region\u200b that is open, interconnected, prosperous, secure, and resilient, which\u200c is\u200d why President Biden and I have each been, \u200bsince we have been in office, to the Indo-Pacific three times.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Since we\u200c have taken \u2062office, the president and I have made it our intention and focus to reinforce our\u2064 defense\u200b and \u2063deterrence \u2063commitments and our security presence in the region. We have provided an ambitious and affirmative\u200c economic agenda for the region that will deliver growth for the American people\u200c and the people in\u2062 that region,&#8221; Harris continued.\u2062 &#8220;Together with our allies and partners, we have defended \u200dinternational rules and norms in the region\u2063 and around the world, which underpin our security and prosperity. All of this work in the Indo-Pacific\u2062 is guided by \u2062a key priority of the Biden-Harris administration, which is to \u2062strengthen our alliances and partnerships in \u200dthe region.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Biden and Harris have spent considerable \u2063time this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harris-courts-indo-pacific-partner-with-biden-on-vacation\/\" title=\"Harris seeks Indo-Pacific ally during Biden's vacation.\">year courting regional allies<\/a> in efforts\u200c to deter economic and military aggression from China, specifically regarding Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>The president has hosted\u200c Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and South\u2062 Korean \u2064President Yoon \u2062Suk Yeol at the White\u2064 House for state visits in recent months and held\u2064 expanded bilateral meetings with\u200d President of the Philippines\u200b Ferdinand \u200cMarcos Jr.<\/p>\n<p>Biden also traveled to Hiroshima, Japan, in late May to attend the G7 \u2062summit and was slated to travel to Papua New Guinea\u200c and Australia following the summit but\u200d was forced to return to Washington, \u2064D.C.,\u200b early to \u200dtake part in the \u2064<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-mitch-mcconnell-led-effort-to-trash-bob-dole-aides-career-over-peripheral-tie-to-january-6\/\" title=\"Exclusive \u2014 Mitch McConnell Led Effort to Trash Bob Dole Aide\u2019s Career over Peripheral Tie to January 6\">debt ceiling negotiations<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President Kamala Harris held bilateral meetings with Mongolian Prime Minister Luvsannamsrain Oyun-Erdene at the White House. As President Joe Biden enjoys his vacation in Delaware, Harris has taken on his public duties, even responding to Gov. 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