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NEW: Escalating Myanmar crisis rare opportunity for US-China cooperation | The Hill thehill.com/policy/interna…

This was a rare area of strong bipartisan support, in particular by then Sen Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and Sen Chris Murphy (D-conn)

'We've already sent [ATACMS], we will send more, now that we have additional authority and money,' Jake Sullivan said at the WH, but said he won't get into the numbers of how many missiles are being provided.

Welp. No mention of Myanmar in the readout of Secretary Antony Blinken visit to China: state.gov/secretary-blin…

“We discussed the contents of the next U.S. military aid package. The President has assured me that the package will be approved quickly and that it will be powerful, strengthening our air defense as well as long-range and artillery capabilities.”

“We can’t play politics with this,” said Speaker Johnson in his decision to move forward with a vote on U.S. aid for Ukraine

EU FP chief Josep Borrell Fontelles 'I urge the political leaders of Georgia 🇬🇪 to withdraw the draft law... it is clear that this legislation is incompatible with the EU norms and values. If adopted, it would jeopardise Georgia’s progress on the EU path.'
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Pompeo puts support behind Johnson in pushing aid for Ukraine

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“Armenians fear new war with Azerbaijan despite talk of peace” via bbc.com/news/world-eur…

“The U.S. and China are in a pretty — sweet spot might be overstating it — but they’re in a stabilization mode,” said Yun Sun ⁦Brookings Foreign Policy⁩
“I do think there’s an effort to find the thing that they can work on… and Myanmar is one of those issues.” thehill.com/policy/interna…

'This is steady, consistent diplomacy aiming at an end point that we've been quite clear about. But there haven't been any kind of dramatic developments over the course of the past few weeks,' Sullivan continued...

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Said as Blinken is set to arrive to raise U.S. objections to China's supply to Russia of nonlethal military tools.

“We’ve told China directly, if this continues, it will have an impact on the U.S.-China relationship,' Deputy Secretary Kurt Campbell said.

More here: thehill.com/policy/interna…

. Brad Bowman: “I think it’s so important to provide Israel additional security assistance yesterday, not so much for the ongoing war in Gaza, but for the war that’s coming soon with Hezbollah [in Lebanon] and Iran.”

Sullivan said admin is confident Ukraine won't use American weapons to strike inside Russia, which is a red line for the Biden admin

'We have an extended period of time where we have tested these commitments from the Ukr. gov... they have followed through on this commitment...'

'It's something we continue to work at. We'll talk to the Saudis and see where we are and obviously we have to talk to the Israelis as well.'

Background here: thehill.com/policy/interna…

“And today's result is that in the agreements on ATACMS for Ukraine, all the details have been finalized. Thank you, Mr. President, thank you, Congress, thank you, America!” president.gov.ua/en/news/chotir…