Tag: Jake Sullivan

Biden Will Speak Virtually With Chinese Leader Xi Before Year End

President Joe Biden will hold a virtual meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping before the end of the year, said White House national security advisor Jake Sullivan on Oct. 26. Sullivan said he did not know the exact date of the scheduled meeting, but the decision was made when he met with China’s top diplomat…


National Security Adviser Sullivan Will Meet Chinese Envoy in Europe

President Joe Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan will meet China’s top diplomat Yang Jiechi this week, the White House announced on Oct. 5. The meeting will take place in Zurich, one of the stops on Sullivan’s trip to Europe that will also take him to Brussels and Paris. The announcement did not specify which…


‘Sullivan’s Travels’

Commentary In 1941, Preston Sturges—one of the greatest of Hollywood directors from the days when Hollywood made entertaining movies—debuted a picture called “Sullivan’s Travels” that has become something of a classic. If you haven’t seen it (you should), it’s a satire of the film industry in which John L. Sullivan, a highly successful, replete with…


Biden Administration Won’t Rule Out Giving Aid to Afghan Taliban

President Joe Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan said it is possible that the Biden administration would provide aid to the Taliban following the United States’ withdrawal from Afghanistan and the collapse of the Afghan government. Sullivan told ABC News’ “Good Morning America” on Tuesday that regarding giving financial assistance to the Taliban, “that will…


US Will Learn Lesson From Afghanistan and Bolster Support for Taiwan, Expert Says

The United States will likely come to the aid of Taiwan in the event of a Chinese invasion, one expert says, pushing back against recent suggestions by Beijing’s propaganda that the self-ruled island would meet the same fate as Afghanistan if it continues to be dependent on Washington. Since the Taliban had swiftly seized control…


Biden Hasn’t Spoken With Any World Leaders on Fall of Afghanistan: White House

President Joe Biden has not spoken to any other world leaders in recent days as the Taliban took over Afghanistan, said national security adviser Jake Sullivan in a news conference on Tuesday. “He has not yet spoken with any other world leaders,” Sullivan said, adding that both he and Secretary of State Antony Blinken have…


Biden National Security Adviser Says Afghanistan Army Lacked ‘Will’ to Defend Against Taliban

President Joe Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan on Monday defended the White House’s withdrawal from Afghanistan but admitted the South Asian country fell to the Taliban terrorist group faster than officials had anticipated. “It is certainly the case that the speed with which cities fell was much greater than anyone anticipated, including the Afghans,…


Why Does Biden Still Want to Talk to China?

Commentary President Joe Biden, according to National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, wants to begin a new round of “engaging” China. Call this another Biden debacle in the making. On June 17, after the troubled meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Geneva, Sullivan told reporters that Biden “will look for opportunities to engage with President…


Opinion: China Continues to Show Its Contempt for the US

Commentary Last week in Anchorage, Alaska, Chinese diplomats dressed down Secretary of State Antony Blinken and national security adviser Jake Sullivan. Both seem stunned by the broadsides. Not since newly elected President John Kennedy was humiliated at the Vienna summit in June 1961 by USSR strongman Nikita Khrushchev have American diplomats been so roughly manhandled…


‘Do Not Let Chinese Propagandists Take Advantage of You’: Former Adviser on Lessons From US–China Meeting

Beijing’s delegation came to Alaska to “score a cheap propaganda” while trying to divert international attention away from the Chinese regime’s abuses, the China adviser to former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says. Last week, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan held a two-day meeting in Anchorage, hosting…