Bloomberg US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that “China has been acting more aggressively,” although he didn’t consider a conflict in the Indo-Pacific inevitable. Blinken spoke as a meeting of the Quad, a regional partnership that also includes Japan, India and Australia, got underway in Melbourne. “Nothing is inevitable,” Blinken said in response to a reporter’s question about ...

  Bloomberg The Taliban-appointed permanent representative to the United Nations says the new Afghan government is pressing the international body for recognition and a member’s seat as the lack of legitimacy hurts the country’s economy and diplomacy. “Why the world is not recognizing us when we have met their conditions,” Suhail Shaheen said in an interview from Doha, Qatar. He ...

  Bloomberg The European Union wants to establish a new crisis response system to defend against threats in space as well boost its capabilities to ward off hybrid and cyber attacks. By the end of the year, the EU will explore the possibility of activating “solidarity, mutual assistance, and crisis response mechanisms in case of attacks originating from space or ...