Category: summit

‘Try Crying About It’: DeSantis Spokesperson Calls on Reporters Barred From GOP Summit

Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’s press secretary Christina Pushaw sent a message to liberal reporters who were not invited to a GOP convention in the Sunshine State: “Try crying about it.” The Florida Republican Party’s annual Sunshine Summit came to its big election-year gathering in Hollywood over the past weekend, featuring keynote speakers, panel discussions, Republican…


Saudi Crown Prince Says Unrealistic Energy Policies Will Lead to Higher Inflation

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia—Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said on Saturday more investment was needed in fossil fuel and clean energy technologies to meet global demand, and that unrealistic emission policies would lead to unprecedented levels of inflation. The prince said Saudi Arabia had announced raising its production capacity to 13 million barrels per…


UN Biodiversity Summit Moved From China Over COVID-19 Policy

BEIJING—A United Nations summit on biodiversity will be held in Canada instead of China, organizers announced Tuesday, the second major international event to be moved from China because of its strict anti-coronavirus policies. The U.N. secretariat for the Convention on Biological Diversity and China’s environment ministry said in separate statements that the meeting will be…


Russia-Ukraine Conflict to Be Central Focus of Justin Trudeau’s Summit Tour

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is on his way to Rwanda for the first leg of a 10-day trip to confer with other world leaders as the war in Ukraine is expected to loom large over nearly all his discussions. Trudeau is expected to arrive in Kigali, the capital, on Wednesday evening, where he will gather…


New Gun Control Legislation Passed in House; Armed Man Plotting to Kill Justice Kavanaugh Arrested | NTD Daybreak

In the wake of recent mass shootings, the House of Representatives passes a wide-ranging package of gun control legislation. The bill raises the legal age to buy a semi-automatic from 18 to 21. A man plotting to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh was arrested. The armed man found near the Justices home is being charged…


First Biden-Yoon Summit Discusses North Korea, Supply Chains, and Security

President Joe Biden, on Friday, landed in South Korea on his first trip to Asia since taking office. The five-day itinerary, which will also take him to Japan, aims to strengthen Indo-Pacific alliances to counter Chinese influence. After touching down in Seoul, Biden first toured Samsung’s chip complex in Pyeongtaek, accompanied by the new South…


NATO Summit Kicks Off Amid ‘Most Serious Security Crisis in a Generation’

President Joe Biden and Western allies convened in Brussels, Belgium on Thursday for the first of three summits meant to address what NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg described as “the most serious security crisis in a generation.” The Western allies met at NATO headquarters in Brussels, where they posed for a group photo before heading…


NGOs to Launch Summit on China’s Forced Organ Harvesting

A virtual event calling out China’s state-sponsored forced organ harvesting of living people, which targets religious and ethnic minorities, will be held on March 22. Forced organ harvesting from living prisoners of conscience has secretly existed for over 20 years across the country under the rule of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), spotlighting an escalation…


The Biden-Xi Summit: A Waste of Time? Not Entirely

Commentary U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Chairman Xi Jinping met via video conference on Nov. 15. In the run-up to such summit meetings, the commentariat (of which this writer is a member) goes into overdrive to predict what will happen. And in the immediate aftermath, another few million words are written…


US Presses Canada to Make Good on Promised 200 Soldier Peacekeeping Force

OTTAWA—The United States is pressing Canada to commit medical units and drones to United Nations missions at a peacekeeping summit in South Korea next week, and to come up with a 200-strong force first promised four years ago. The request came in a letter to Global Affairs Canada from the U.S. on the eve of…