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National Security Advisors of the United States, South Korea and Japan convened to discuss a collective response to North Korea’s illicit crypto financing for weapons of mass destruction programs (WMD).

India and the USA on Monday held a comprehensive review of India-US Initiative on Critical and Emerging Technologies (iCET) at the level of Deputy National Security Advisers and agreed to broaden the scope of iCET to biotechnology, critical minerals and rare earths processing technologies, digital connectivity and digital public infrastructure, and advanced materials. Jonathan Finer, Principal Deputy National Security Adviser of the United States on Monday held consultations with Vikram Misri, Deputy National Security Adviser. This is a follow up to the visit of US NSA Jake Sullivan to India in June 2023 and the visit of NSA Ajit Doval to US in January 2023. The two Deputy NSAs have agreed to broaden the scope of iCET to biotechnology, critical minerals and rare earths processing technologies, digital connectivity and digital public infrastructure, and advanced materials, officials said, adding, they also affirmed the importance of easing regulations to facilitate high-tech collaborations, and transfer of technology. During the consultations, the two Deputy NSAs reviewed key bilateral issues and exchanged views on regional and global developments, officials said.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said there was «reason to believe» a U.S. hostage would be released from captivity in Gaza on Sunday.

Israel and Hamas appeared to be back on track Sunday after the release of a second group of militant-held hostages and Palestinians from Israeli prisons, and Egypt said it had received new lists for an expected third release. In a separate development, Hamas announced Sunday that one of its top commanders had been killed, without saying when or how. Israel's military confirmed it.

That work, begun in the days after the hostages were taken, finally bore fruit with the announcement of a prisoner swap deal mediated by Qatar and Egypt and agreed by Israel, Hamas and the United States. The secretive effort included tense personal diplomatic engagement by U.S. President Joe Biden, who held a number of urgent conversations with emir of Qatar and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the weeks leading up to the deal. It also involved hours of painstaking negotiations including Secretary of State Antony Blinken, CIA Director Bill Burns, national security adviser Jake Sullivan and his deputy Jon Finer, and U.S.

President Joe Biden wants to show Asia-Pacific leaders that he remains focused on the region even as his administration is grappling with the wars in Ukraine and the Mideast and a looming government shutdown in Washington

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Joe Biden is determined to see the re-establishment of military-to-military ties with China, White House National security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Sunday during an interview with CBS' «Face the Nation» program. Biden will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping face-to-face for the first time in a year on Wednesday on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit.

The US remains the world’s preeminent power by several orders of magnitude. So when its National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan expounds on American foreign policy, the rest of the world should take note. The NSA is a political appointee.

White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan on Sunday would not acknowledge differences between the U.S. and Israel over the military assault on Gaza, but emphasized that Washington was being candid with its ally. Faced with growing outcry over Israel's bombardment of Gaza since the deadly Oct.

United States and China have agreed to work together toward an expected summit between presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping next month, U.S. officials said on Friday, following hours of meetings between Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi and senior U.S.

The Biden administration is meeting with China’s top diplomats this week to try to repair a relationship between the two superpowers that has grown rocky.

Two senior Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives have called on the Biden administration to tighten export controls on advanced semiconductors to China. The lawmakers, Michael McCaul and Mike Gallagher, chairmen of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the House Select Committee on China respectively, expressed concerns over the Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security's (BIS) lax enforcement of existing rules. The call for action comes amid advancements by China's Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) and Huawei Technologies.

Janet Yellen says US can 'certainly afford' two wars- Israel and Ukraine According to Shalanda Young, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, Republicans will be hypocritical to oppose Biden's proposal even after protesting against border management policies. And ever since the new asylum restrictions kicked in, illegal crossings have increased. "We will not be lectured by those who refuse to act.

WARNING — GRAPHIC FOOTAGE: The Punaro Group CEO Gen. Arnold Punaro (ret.) discusses the attacks on Israel from Hamas and reacts to the White House being grilled over refreezing the $6 billion from the Iran prisoner swap deal.

An Israel Defense Forces official says Hamas is “trying to prevent” people from fleeing Gaza, as civilians try to seek safety ahead of an expected Israeli ground offensive.

head towards the southern part of the region, between 10 am and 1 pm local time. Once the deadline exhausted, the IDF warned that it would “implement a wide range of offensive operative plans" in the region to target the Hamas militants. - The ground invasion, which would reportedly involve 10,000 soldiers along with aerial and naval forces, will be set off following “a political decision", military spokesmen Lieutenant Richard Hecht and Daniel Hagari said in a press briefing.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Sunday that the Biden administration hopes to push a new weapons package for Israel and Ukraine through Congress that will be significantly higher than $2 billion.