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U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will become the first member of President Joe Biden’s cabinet to visit Southeast Asia this week. Austin will call out aggressive Chinese behavior in the South China Sea and stress the importance of keeping the wider region free and open.

18:30 - President Joe Biden in a Monday afternoon call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed his support for a ceasefire as fighting between Israel and Hamas enters a second week.

17:01 - The Pentagon on Wednesday confirmed that nearly a dozen rockets struck an Iraqi base hosting U.S. troops.

21:45 - In his first foreign policy address since ascending to the nation’s highest office, President Joe Biden vowed to repair alliances through diplomacy and restore Washington’s leadership position on the global stage.

Chinese negotiators this week surprised their European Union counterparts with key market access concessions – following long months of intransigence — that could allow the two parties to reach an agreement on a historic investment deal by year’s end.

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin called on the public to get the coronavirus vaccine, but is yet to receive it himself, he said.

22:00 - On Monday, Biden announced he intends to nominate Antony Blinken as secretary of State. If confirmed, the appointment puts Blinken at the front lines of Biden’s China policy. “One of the things that this picking signifies is that Biden will almost certainly make good his promise to re-engage U.S. allies,” Isaac Stone Fish, a senior fellow at the Asia Society, said in a phone interview. “Trump has already seriously wounded China-U.S. relations. Although the Biden ... and his team are very familiar with China, they cannot avoid these problems,” said Shen Yamei, deputy director and associate research fellow at state-backed think tank China Institute of International Studies’ department for American studies.

16:24 - Secretary of State Mike Pompeo ignored Joe Biden’s victory and claimed there will be a “smooth transition” to a second Trump term. Other top Trump administration officials, such as Vice President Mike Pence, have publicly insisted that the election is not over.

12:57 - The World Trade Organization ruled on Tuesday that additional tariffs imposed in 2018 by the United States on Chinese goods violated international trading rules, a blow to the Trump administration’s trade war against the world’s second largest economy. A three-person panel of WTO trade experts said Washington broke with global regulations in 2018 when it slapped more than $200 billion in levies on a slew of Chinese goods. Since March 2018, the United States has imposed tariffs on $400 billion in Chinese exports.