#Biden

President of South Korea

20 May 2022 6 4

Chad O'Carroll

Inserted 2 years ago

“The looming prospect of possible nuclear tests, more joint U.S.-South Korea military drills, and the new conservative South Korean president mean all conditions are present for a tit-for-tat chain reaction of escalatory steps. Though Biden would prefer to focus exclusively on the Ukraine crisis, it's likely he will soon face crisis-level tensions between the Koreas.”

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CEO of Korea Risk Group

24 Mar 2022 5 5

Samir Puri

Inserted 2 years ago

“The call between Biden and Xi came as a really important moment, with the US engaging in something of a diplomatic offensive to try to call out, and even to shame, China for its somewhat neutral stance over Ukraine. In particular, the intelligence the US publicised about the Russian request for the provision of Chinese military assistance will almost certainly be a feature of how Biden approaches this call - presumably to berate Xi Jinping for even entertaining this and berating China for not turning their back on Russia during the Russian invasion. However, it is highly unlikely China is going to walk away from its ambitious goal of boosting its already deep economic ties with Russia. Because China trades with Russia openly - it buys its crude oil, gas among other things - it is indirectly supporting Russia and I think it's flight of fancy to think that China would turn its back on its economic relationship with Russia, even if it steps back from providing fresh military support and equipment.”

Senior fellow in hybrid warfare at the International Institute for Strategic Studies

18 Mar 2022 6 4

Dmitry Peskov

Inserted 2 years ago

“It seems positive that the U.S. president is also stating his readiness to start such serious negotiations... It's probably welcome that the president of the United States of America, one of the largest countries in the world, one of the most powerful states, really thinks about the Russian people [Biden's direct appeal to Russian citizens that 'you are not our enemy']. If we had heard the appeal without threats, then, probably, the Russian people would have been much more impressed.”

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Kremlin spokesman

16 Feb 2022 3 2

Antony Blinken

Inserted 2 years ago

“President Biden met here in Geneva with President Putin, he's spoken to him on the phone or via videoconference on a number of occasions, and if we conclude (and) the Russians conclude that the best way to resolve things is through a further conversation between them, we're certainly prepared to do that.”

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U.S. Secretary of State

21 Jan 2022 4 2

Ezra Klein

Inserted 2 years ago

“For decades, Democrats and Republican administrations alike believed the market would manage supply. We live in the wreckage of that worldview. But it held for so long that the U.S. government has lost both the muscle and the confidence needed to manage supply, at least when it comes to anything other than military spending. So Biden's task now is clear: to build a government that can create supply, not just demand.”

Nytimes

American journalist, political analyst, New York Times columnist, and the host of The Ezra Klein Show podcast

16 Jan 2022 5 3

Kristian Ulrichsen

Inserted 2 years ago

“With the Iran nuclear deal still up in the air and the war in Yemen continuing to rage, Biden's approach to the Middle East is very similar to that of Trump. The deeper down, the substance, is not as different as one might have imagined. So, it's more one of style.”

Research fellow at the James A Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University

31 Dec 2021 5 6

Kyle Kondik

Inserted 2 years ago

“The public is increasingly judging Biden relatively negatively. His approval rating is underwater, and strong disapproval is significantly higher than strong approval.”

Political analyst at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics

30 Dec 2021 4 3

James Thurber

Inserted 2 years ago

“Under the circumstances, Biden's done phenomenally well, getting what he did get done. People will still be disappointed and he will have a rough time in 2022 because it's an election year. It will be an ugly year of confrontation, partisanship and gridlock. Presidents don't do well with major cleavages in their own parties. It's going to be a messy year.”

Professor of government at American University in Washington, DC

30 Dec 2021 2 2

Robert McCaw

Inserted 2 years ago

“The Chinese government is conducting a brutal campaign of genocide against Uyghur Muslims and other Turkic ethnic minority groups in the Uyghur region. By signing the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, President Biden has provided our government with a powerful tool to ensure that no American corporation is able profit from Uyghur slave labor and thereby contribute to China's genocide.”

Council on American-Islamic Relations's government affairs director

23 Dec 2021 7 2

Leonid Ragozin

Inserted 2 years ago

“In the end, Washington failed to push Putin's red lines, but instead exposed its own, when Biden conceded in early December that he would not send US troops to protect Ukraine. With that being clearly articulated, Putin launched a counterattack by demanding guarantees from NATO that it would not expand into the former Soviet space. As for Ukraine, it is emerging from this turmoil more vulnerable to Russian aggression than it was at the beginning of the year.”

Freelance journalist based in Riga

22 Dec 2021 9 2

Shin Beom-chul

Inserted 2 years ago

“The North Korean nuclear issue was already low on Biden's agenda as the Kim regime has remained unresponsive to U.S. calls to return to the negotiating table. The only way to bring North Korea back to the bargaining table is by the U.S. making concessions to the North, which is not going to happen in consideration of the current U.S. stance. Due to these reasons, the North Korea issue has been pushed back on the priority list.”

Director of the Center for Diplomacy and Security at the Korea Research Institute for National Strategy

20 Dec 2021 3 2

Tatiana Stanovaya

Inserted 2 years ago

“Even if Putin gets something from the west, serious talks or discussions about guarantees - will that be enough for Putin? We are witnessing the dawn of a new geopolitical adventurism from Russia. Putin thinks that if Biden wants, he can move mountains, he can convince allies and convince Kyiv [to make concessions]. This problem could lead Putin to demand the impossible and push the stakes so high that everything ends in war.”

Founder of the political analysis firm R.Politik

12 Dec 2021 7 3

Alexander Baunov

Inserted 2 years ago

“The source of this talk of a coming war is Western media, politicians, and experts: not the Kremlin, which prefers to use secret special operations to achieve its goals, rather than openly mobilize its troops, which is simply a way of strengthening its negotiating position. Biden has come out of this as the leader who prevented a war, but that's not to say that the summit will necessarily be followed by deescalation and the return of Russian troops to their barracks, as was the case back in the spring after the agreement to hold the Geneva summit. This time, no dramatic deescalation is likely. Biden will be the leader who prevented a war, but not the threat of war: not until Moscow sees new steps taken by Washington on Ukraine and visible signs of work on engaging with Russian security concerns.”

Themoscowtimes

Russian international policy expert, journalist, publicist, and former diplomat

10 Dec 2021 9 2

Jake Sullivan

Inserted 2 years ago

“The discussion between president Biden and president Putin was direct and straightforward. There was a lot of give and take, there was no finger-wagging. But the president was crystal clear about where the United States stands on all of these issues.”

US National Security Adviser

08 Dec 2021 3 2

Dmitri Trenin

Inserted 2 years ago

“Putin-Biden video call has been useful. Acknowledging each other's security concerns is key. Reviving channel on [Ukraine] can help avoid misunderstanding … War fears in west will not subside just yet, but jaw jaw is better than war war.”

Director of the Carnegie Moscow Center and a former colonel in the Russian army

08 Dec 2021 5 2

Mykhailo Podolyak

Inserted 2 years ago

“We support President Biden's call on the Russian leader to return to diplomatic instruments and ensure de-escalation in our region. We will continue to coordinate with the American side to achieve concrete results in the interests of Ukraine.”

Advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy

07 Dec 2021 7 2

Simon Tisdall

Inserted 2 years ago

“Myanmar is a textbook case of an aspiring democracy crushed underfoot by a tyrant. It symbolises the global struggle for political pluralism, progressive values, and supposedly universal rights that the democracy summit hopes to advance. It is also a litmus test. Will Biden's well-intentioned waffle-fest, as critics characterise it, make any real difference? If democracy's champions cannot resolve an open-and-shut case such as Myanmar, they may as well abandon their Zoom session and switch to PlayStation.”

Columnist for The Guardian newspaper and an assistant editor of the publication

05 Dec 2021 7 3

Harry Kazianis

Inserted 2 years ago

“While surely Team Biden wants the Moon Jae-in government to be a more active part of what is clearly a growing anti-China coalition, it seems unlikely the Blue House [Korean presidential office] will cave to any pressure. Korea must continue its difficult balancing act, trying to juggle emerging economic ties with China and a much-needed security alliance with America. That won't be easy, but it has been something President Moon thus far has excelled at.”

Senior director of Korean Studies at the Center for the National Interest

24 Nov 2021 8 4

Lee Seong-hyon

Inserted 2 years ago

“For Xi Jinping, the summit was about bolstering his international credentials ahead of his unprecedented third term next year. For Joe Biden, it was about managing voter sentiment ahead of next year's mid-term elections and allying American allies' fears of increasing international disorder. In other words, they needed to take a breather from what Biden called 'extreme competition' to attend to their respective needs, while having an opportunity to size up the other side through the summit.”