WORLD_ Distracted: Biden’s Quad summit no-show rattles U.S. allies in Pacific

THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Distracted: Biden’s Quad summit no-show rattles U.S. allies in Pacific

China gloats as debt ceiling crisis nixes symbol-heavy stops on Asian tour


President Joe Biden poses for photos with Pacific Island leaders including Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare, center, and Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape on the North Portico of the White House in Washington, Sept. 29, 2022. On … more >


By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times - Updated: 6:54 p.m. on Wednesday, May 17, 2023


President Biden’s decision to shorten his upcoming Asia trip and skip a meeting of leaders of the strategic U.S.-India-Japan-Australia “Quad” group to deal with the national debt crisis marks a blow to the ongoing U.S. campaign to show itself as a reliable partner for countering China’s increasingly aggressive rise in the region and on the world stage.

The change in plans also risks tarnishing U.S. influence in the Pacific, analysts say, and it fuels perceptions that Washington is too gripped by dysfunction and partisan bickering at home to lead the Quad. The alignment of powerful democracies began more than a decade ago but gained momentum under President Trump as a counter to China’s rising influence.

The cancellation proved a blow to U.S. soft power as well. Papua New Guinea declared a national holiday to mark Mr. Biden’s expected three-hour stop in the country early next week in what would have been the first visit by a sitting U.S. president to any Pacific Island nation.

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