Blinken also said he had asked Israel for any evidence for its claim that Hamas was operating in a Gaza office building housing The Associated Press and Al Jazeera news bureaus that was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike over the weekend. But he said that he personally has “not seen any information provided.”
After initially blocking a U.N. Security Council meeting on Friday to discuss “the situation in Israel and Gaza,” the Biden administration agreed to participate in such a meeting on Sunday. Secretary of State Antony Blinken hoped the delay would “give time for diplomacy.”
Iraqi President Barham Salih claimed in an interview on Wednesday that Baghdad has “more than once” hosted secret talks between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
U.S. Secretary Blinken blasted Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele Tuesday over his country’s Legislative Assembly move to remove top judges.
China’s envoy to the United Nations, Zhang Jun, told reporters Monday that U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken gave a “positive” response to China’s invitation to attend a virtual U.N. Security Council summit on Friday.
Biden appears to see America’s role as shaping China into a more responsible superpower, once it overtakes the U.S., rather than challenging China’s rise or restraining its ambitions.
President Joe Biden has decided not to reverse President Donald Trump’s recognition of Moroccan sovereignty over the disputed Western Sahara region, the Axios news site reported.
A group of GOP senators came out against the Biden administration’s move to resume funding for a U.N. Palestinian refugee agency.
Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) conceded that former President Donald Trump “took bold and aggressive” action against Communist China.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced this week that the administration of President Joe Biden expects to immediately invest “nearly $300 million” in aid to Afghanistan, potentially just the beginning in what Blinken has advertised as heightened civilian engagement in the country.
President Joe Biden wore a mask during the climate summit with world leaders Thursday, even though it was virtual.
Secretary of State Tony Blinken welcomed 19-year-old Mexican-born climate activist Xiye Bastida to speak at Biden’s summit of over 40 world leaders.
The Global Times, a Chinese government propaganda newspaper, condemned President Joe Biden on Wednesday for announcing he would withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan in September.
Three media post mortems into President Joe Biden’s policy flip-flop-flip on refugees last week suggest that Biden’s staff tried to protect their boss from further migration-caused political damage, but were overruled by pro-migration advocates outside the building.
The State Department bashed the U.S. as racist after a jury found Derek Chauvin guilty of George Floyd’s murder.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry announced Wednesday that dictator Xi Jinping has accepted U.S. President Joe Biden’s invitation to attend a virtual climate summit on Thursday, April 22, which Western environmental activists commemorate as Earth Day.
Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said Tuesday that India must continue exporting coronavirus vaccines despite mounting infections and vaccine shortages at home because of the need to maintain “global supply chains.”
The “climate crisis” is forcing Central American girls to risk sexual violence during the journey to north, Secretary of State Blinken said.
Climate change poses a “grave threat” and an “existential” menace over the long-term to all Americans, similar to acts of aggression by China and Russia and the coronavirus pandemic, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken declared Monday.
Secretary of State Tony Blinken delivered an address on climate change at the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland on Monday in which he admitted that some American workers “would be hit hard” by the Biden administration’s policies.
The United States and China have agreed to cooperate and “curb climate change with urgency” in the lead-up to President Joe Biden hosting a virtual summit of world leaders to discuss the issue. The announcement of further “strong pledges” by Washington and Beijing was made Sunday in a joint statement issued by the two countries.
Washington will demonstrate “enduring” support for Afghanistan even after the U.S. withdraws its troops from the country later this year, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said during an unannounced visit to Kabul on Thursday.
Chinese state media on Monday mocked U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken for sending “mixed messages” and bungling the Biden administration’s China policy, which is supposedly torn between rational recognition of China’s new global power and the need to “keep a hardline stance to respond to domestic anti-China consensus.”
A spokesman for the governor of Badakhshan said Taliban forces launched a lethal assault against the Afghan National Army (ANA) on Tuesday morning, the first day of Ramadan, killing three government soldiers in the province, the Khaama Press reported.
Religious freedom champion Nina Shea called out U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken Monday, asserting that his alteration of America’s human-rights policy “does a grave disservice to millions who are persecuted for their faith.”
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said Americans and Israelis will be murdered as result of the Biden administration’s decision to send hundreds of millions of dollars to the Palestinian Authority (PA) during an appearance on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Sunday with host Joel Pollak.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that talk of the United States boycotting the 2022 Beijing Olympics was “premature.”
The Biden administration was applauded Thursday by the U.N. agency for so-called Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, after it offered $250 million in funding while sidestepping a 2018 law that prevents U.S. taxpayer dollars from supporting the Palestinian Authority.
The Biden administration announced $250 million in spending Wednesday on the Palestinians, despite a 2018 law that prevents U.S. taxpayer dollars from supporting the Palestinian Authority while it pays stipends and pensions to terrorists and their families.
The Biden administration’s mixed messages regarding the nuclear deal ahead of indirect talks with Iran are “very troubling,” the Jerusalem Post cited senior Israeli officials as saying, with one accusing Special Envoy for Iran Rob Malley of “acting like he’s from the U.N.” and not a representative of the American people.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ ruling Fatah party has included convicted terrorists as well as the relatives of terrorists in senior positions on its list for May’s parliamentary elections, Israel’s Kan public broadcaster reported Thursday.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) mouthpiece People’s Daily Online editorialized on Wednesday that America’s concept of human rights is “sowing seeds of hatred” around the world, because the U.S. hypocritically uses diplomatic pressure, sanctions, and military interventions to impose its vision of human rights on other countries while failing to live up to those standards itself.
China’s state-run Global Times newspaper noted in multiple articles Wednesday that Secretary of State Antony Blinken had used the occasion of the debut of his agency’s global human rights report to decry “systemic racism” in the United States, a common Communist Party complaint about the country.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has reinstated abortion and reproductive rights in the list of “human rights” to be evaluated in the State Department’s annual global human rights report.
The State Department intends to spend $2.5 million to establish the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
Secretary of State Blinken said the U.S. needs to confront human rights abuses within its borders, including addressing “systemic racism.”
Secretary of State Tony Blinken refused to call Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman a killer on Sunday’s broadcast of “State of the Union” when asked about President Joe Biden calling Russian President Vladimir Putin a killer.
The Chinese government is using “racial themes” pushed by organizations like Black Lives Matter to undermine America, noted Gordon Chang.
At his first press conference, President Joe Biden discusses his relationship with Chinese leader Xi Jinping and claims to have warned Xi he will not tolerate continuing human rights abuses.
China’s latest exercise of “sharp power” – using economic leverage to impose its political agenda on the free world – targets H&M, a Swedish fashion company. The clothing company was surprised to find itself threatened with boycotts and banned by major Chinese e-commerce platforms Wednesday over months-old social media posts expressing concern about China’s use of Uyghur Muslim slave labor in Xinjiang province.
