{"id":680183,"date":"2021-08-24T14:51:06","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T18:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=680183"},"modified":"2021-08-24T14:51:09","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T18:51:09","slug":"in-singapore-harris-urges-the-world-to-buy-christmas-presents-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-singapore-harris-urges-the-world-to-buy-christmas-presents-now\/","title":{"rendered":"In Singapore, Harris Urges The World To Buy Christmas Presents Now"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fin-singapore-harris-urges-the-world-to-buy-christmas-presents-now%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=680183&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\/2021\/08\/toys-2.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>With Afghanistan in full meltdown, Vice President Kamala Harris flew halfway around the world to talk about\u2026Christmas presents?<\/p>\n<p>More than 7,000 miles away from Washington, D.C., in Singapore, Harris said it\u2019s \u201ctime to start buying\u201d toys. Addressing a roundtable of business leaders after delivering a speech, the vice president cited climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic as adverse effects on the supply chain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe stories that we are now hearing about the caution that if you want to have Christmas toys for your children, it might now be might be the time to start buying them, because the delay may be many, many months,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo across the board, people are experiencing the issue. And, of course, the climate crisis is fueling a lot of this. When we look at the stronger typhoons that have disrupted shipping lanes and sea-level rise, which threatens port infrastructure as an example. So these are the many issues that are causing these disruptions,\u201d Harris said.<\/p>\n<p>The vice president on Sunday high-tailed it out of D.C. for a week-long Asia tour. While she has so far mostly dodged the topic of Afghanistan in her comments, her first stop brought mild criticism from a foreign leader.<\/p>\n<p>During an appearance alongside Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, both leaders were asked about the disastrous U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI understand and appreciate why you asked the question. And I think there\u2019s going to be plenty of time to analyze what has happened and what has taken place in the context of the withdrawal from Afghanistan,\u201d the vice president said. \u201cBut right now, we are singularly focused on evacuating American citizens, Afghans who worked with us, and Afghans who are vulnerable, including women and children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harris added that \u201cwe have a responsibility and we feel a deep commitment to making sure that folks who helped us are safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lee was blunt. \u201cCountries make calculations and take positions, and they have to make recalculations and adjust their positions from time to time,\u201d the prime minister said. \u201cSometimes it can be done smoothly; sometimes there are hiccups. &nbsp;Sometimes things go awry and take time to put right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The leader also said, \u201cwhat will influence perceptions of U.S. resolve and commitment to the region will be what the U.S. does going forward: how it repositions itself in the region, how it engages its broad range of friends and partners and allies in the region, and how it continues the fight against terrorism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, in what was billed as a major foreign policy speech, Harris again failed to mention Afghanistan, instead taking aim at China. \u201cWe know that Beijing continues to coerce, to intimidate, and to make claims to the vast majority of the South China Sea,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Harris on Tuesday will travel on to Vietnam. With the Taliban takeover of Kabul, which prompted emergency flights out of Afghanistan, critics have compared the situation to the fall of Saigon and Harris to a prominent anti-war activist. \u201cThe prospect of Harris visiting Vietnam at this particular moment raised the possibility of the worst photo op for an American in that country since Jane Fonda donned a helmet there in 1972,\u201d Fox News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/kamala-harris-vietnam-afghanistan-comparisons-fall-of-saigon\">wrote<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Afghanistan in full meltdown, Vice President Kamala Harris flew halfway around the world to talk about\u2026Christmas presents?More than 7,000 miles away from Washington, D.C., in Singapore, Harris said it\u2019s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-680183","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\/680183","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680183\/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=680183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}