The most positive outcome of the visit by the top U.S. diplomat was the pledge to keep talking, but Washington didn’t get the one thing it really wanted.
By providing some of the most sophisticated and expensive weapons to date, Kyiv’s backers will tie Ukraine’s military more closely than ever to the bloc.
The fresh revelations will unsettle allied nations that share such classified information with the U.S., experts said.
The statement comes as the Southeast Asian nation continues to balance strengthening American defense ties with increasing pressure from Beijing.
Behind closed doors, U.S. officials are troubled by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s pressure on religious minorities and the media, and his party’s targeting of opposition lawmakers.
The proposal has provoked a sense of unease within the administration of President Joe Biden, leading in turn to questions about the broader U.S. approach to both Russia and China.
The U.S. military presence in Taiwan will grow to between 100 and 200 troops, up from about 30 a year ago.
The Biden administration sought to counter China’s insistence that it was a harmless weather-monitoring device that blew off course.
The latest information has only deepened the administration’s conviction that the balloon wasn’t "mainly” a weather-monitoring device as Chinese officials have claimed.
The incident highlights the escalating intelligence battle between the U.S. and China, utilizing everything from geostationary satellites and signals intercepts to old-fashioned spy craft.
