Daily Memo: South Pacific Diplomacy, Microchip Availability

Domestic politics has forced Biden to cancel his trip to the region.

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No-go. U.S. President Joe Biden has canceled visits to Papua New Guinea and Australia next week because of continued debt ceiling talks. Biden was scheduled to be in Sydney for a leaders’ summit of the Quad security grouping, which has been indefinitely postponed. He was also expected to sign historic defense and security agreements during […]

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