Quad Meeting in Washington Puts China’s Critical Minerals Front and Center

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Well, this is what is on the tap for today: Quarter It meets in Washington, Pentagon Suspension Arms shipments to UkraineAnd Iran Allegedly Trump penetration.

For the second time in less than six months, quadrilateral security – simply known as the “quarter” – was dialogue in Washington. Just as he did the next day of the inauguration in US President Donald Trump, Foreign Minister Marco Rubio hosted the Foreign Ministers of Japan, Australia and India to attend a meeting of informal security assembly, but the influence that greatly aims to confront China’s influence in the Indian Pacific region.

It was originally prepared to coordinate humanitarian assistance during the 2004 Tsunami in the Indian Ocean, and it has gone through multiple repetitions and even nearly a decade of stillness before reviving it in its current form during the first period of Trump. The group has from time to strengthened through multiple departments, and has partially helped Biden’s love for “Alumilyn”, which was a sharp contradiction with Trump’s hatred of anything that involves more than himself and another leader.

This week, also, Rubio and his counterparts – Indian Foreign Minister S. Jaishhanskar, Australian Foreign Minister Benny Wong, and Japanese Foreign Minister Takishi Iowa – presented a unified front. They gathered again about their joint opposition to China without naming the country in the joint statement that they were called them on Tuesday, which reaffirmed “their steadfast commitment to India, the free and open Pacific Ocean” and opposing “any unilateral measures that seek to change the current situation by force or rise.” The statement also included the condemnation of the launch of ballistic missiles in North Korea and the Internet crime, as well as the terrorist attack on April 22 in Indian Kashmir.

The main collective delivery process came in the form of the creation of a critical metal quad initiative, which seeks to “enhance economic security and collective flexibility through cooperation to secure and diversify critical metal supply chains,” China dominated and increased in preparation for weapons.

“These are strategic partners and allies in the United States, we have many common priorities,” Rubio told reporters on Tuesday.

“The feelings were strong.” “There is a lot to prove in this joint statement, which is the first thing that gives us any feeling of how a quarter develops in the framework of the Trump administration,” added Ford, a senior consultant at Claarion Strategies. “In many ways, this joint statement – through 2025, appears at least – almost strange in normal life.”

However, the new tensions between member countries (most of which are the Trump administration with each of the other three) can threaten a tightly coherent quadruple detection.

Sensitive topics. On the horizon on the quadruple intimate friendship is Trump’s unexpected and sabotage policy, with all three countries – with dozens of others – which are to secure the deals that will gain them in re -assembling the American definitions that are scheduled to enter next Wednesday unless Trump is postponed again.

The commercial delegation in India has been in Washington since last week in an attempt to negotiate an agreement, while Trump told reporters on Wednesday that he doubts an agreement with Japan. Technically, technically, it has a free trade agreement with the United States, but that did not prevent Trump from slapping a 10 percent tariff on Australian goods – a tariff said Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albaniz this week “must be zero.”

There is also an inconvenience in India that Trump is getting a ceasefire between India and Pakistan last month, Australia’s concerns about the Pentagon review of the aukus associate author, and Japan reporting reporting the annual “2+2” dialogue with the United States-which was determined for this week-more than that requesting the United States to this defense.

“One thing [about] Tanvi Madan, an older colleague at the Washington -based Brookings Institute, wrote on X: “If this weakness,” if that is strong when the diodes behind them are strong.

Trump has not participated himself directly with the quarter in his second term so far, and instead he left this task for Rubio, but the US president is expected to attend the group leaders in India later this year.

China is calm. Even China’s opposition, which is allegedly the quadruple glue, was disturbed during the Trump era – as night reports in its last FP article. China’s strategy in Washington has been affected by hostility and recovery over the past six months, which raised questions about the amount of what Trump could depend to choose an Indian battle in the Pacific if needed.

Beijing has been unusually silent over the quarter in the past few months, and it is a sharp contrast of its former iron against the group as the “Asian NATO” aimed at containing China. This may be because China now sees a quarter – and it is already the US alliances in general – weakens due to internal differences, according to Ford.

“My general experience is if China does not complain out loudly about what you do in Asia, you are doing it wrong.”

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Iconic Building C. Edgar Hoover In the center of Washington, DC, it will soon be abandoned at the headquarters of the FBI, the FBI director, Cash Patel, announced on Wednesday. Instead, the agency will move a few buildings on the street to the Ronald Reagan building, which until recently was the home of the US agency that has now ended for international development (USAID).

Lin M. Treissy He leaves Moscow after spent two and a half years in Russia.

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What should be on your radar, if not really.

Baby goes to Washington. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to travel to Washington on July 7, where he is pushing Trump to a new ceasefire and hostage in Gaza. Netanyahu’s visit will come in the wake of the 12 -day Israel war with Iran, which reached its climax with historical American strikes on the main Iranian nuclear sites and the medium fire stopping Trump, which started on a shaky land, but it seems that he was holding at this moment.

The Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs, Ron Dimer, a senior adviser to Netanyahu, is already in Washington this week to discuss Gaza and Iran. Netanyahu’s imminent visit will occur, as questions continue to spin about the full range of damage to Israelis and American strikes on Iranian nuclear sites, despite the repeated assurances from Trump that the Iranian nuclear program “has been obliterated”. Pentagon spokesman Sean Bernil estimated on Wednesday that the strikes had repeated the nuclear program again by one to two years.

Trump and Netanyahu are scheduled to discuss Syria amid signs that Israel is interested in moving towards normalizing relations with the new Syrian government. However, it is possible that a set of issues – ranging from the Israeli guarantee of the Golan’s rise to the Palestinian state – will probably present obstacles to this goal. The Israeli army has also been working in parts of Syria since late last year, following the expulsion of Syrian President Bashar al -Assad.

Washington is attached to some Ukrainian weapons. The United States stops the shipment of some weapons promised by Ukraine, noting that Washington’s stocks of these weapons are very low. The decision “was taken to put the interests of America first after the Ministry of Defense [Department of Defense] Anna Kelly, a member of the White House journalist, said in a statement Politico.

This comes because Russia was apparently fighting to achieve major regional gains in a summer attack despite the advantages of workforce and military equipment. However, Ukraine faces great challenges as it attends the war of attrition with Russia.

Over June, Russia has launched 5438 drones in Ukraine – a new monthly number, according to Associated Press. Meanwhile, nearly 50,000 Russian soldiers gathered near the northeastern city of Sumi, the capital of Sumi. The region was the gradual land of the amazing attack of Ukraine across the border in the Russian Kursk region last year. Since then, Ukraine has been forced to back down from most of the Corsak, although the Supreme Military Commander in Ukraine, Olexander Serski, said in late June that his forces still control a small piece of land in the area.

Although the Ukrainian forces near Sumi exceeded 3 to 1, Serski said last week that the Russian progress in the region had stopped. The Institute of War Study, which tracks the situation on the ground in Ukraine, said that Russia has not advanced in the region recently.

Trump penetrated. It is said that the infiltrators are linked to Iran threatening to issue emails taken from Trump’s assistants and others associated with the president – including White House Chief of Staff Suzy Wales, Chancellor Roger Stone, and pornographic actor Stormy Daniels. The infiltrators told Reuters that they might try to sell emails.

The same group, which was working under the name “Robert”, was responsible for penetrating the Trump campaign last year – although this was eventually no effect on the outcome of the 2024 presidential election.

After the reports from Reuters about the threats of infiltrators, the CISA and the US infrastructure (CISA) warned in a statement that “the hostile foreign opponent threatens to exploit the alleged materials illegally and unlimited materials in an attempt to distort the attention of attention, distortion and division.” Cisa said this represents a “calculated swab campaign” against Trump.

This comes several days after Trump was subjected to Iranian Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to declare victory over the United States and Israel. Trump responded by saying that he was giving up any steps towards reliefing sanctions against Iran.

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Palestinian children lined up to receive a hot meal at the food distribution point in Nuseirat, Gaza, on June 30.Eyad Baba/AFP via Getty Images

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Sunday, July 6: The Brazilian Picks Summit is scheduled to start.

Wednesday, July 9The mutual tariff in the United States is preparing for the specific countries.

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More than 14 million people can die for the next half, including 4.5 million children under the age Lancet on monday. From 2001 to 2021, the programs funded by the United States Agency for International Development helped prevent nearly 92 million deaths across 133 countries, according to the analysis.

Rubio announced on Tuesday that the US Agency for International Development “will officially stop implementing foreign assistance.” Rubio said that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is responsible for foreign assistance programs that “are in line with the policies of the administration.”

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“Dog is the monster that might have to return and eat Elon. Isn’t that terrible?”

His colleague at one time, Elon Musk, who criticized the Trump spending bill and deepened in a hostility that began after Musk left the informal government efficiency (Doug). Trump also said he would have to look at musk, which is likely to be an American citizen, and contemplates the severing of the numerous billionaire contracts in South Africa.

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Nearly three weeks have passed since a British F-35 fighter plane was established for the first time in therofananthapuram in the Indian state of Kerala after having to land in emergency situations-the state government is clearly feeling that it is no longer too early to make jokes around it. “Kerala, the destination that will never want to leave,” wrote the state’s tourism council in a post on X, with a fake five -star review of the plane.