U.N. humanitarian affairs and relief head Tom Fletcher has told The Associated Press that the situation is getting “horrific for civilians” in Sudan.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio has met with his counterparts from Australia, India and Japan as the Trump administration kicks off its formal foreign policy engagements in discussions with the Indo-Pacific “Quad.”.

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President Joe Biden has told Indo-Pacific allies that he believes China’s increasing military assertiveness is an effort to test the region at a turbulent moment for Beijing.

President Joe Biden will host the leaders of Australia, India and Japan next weekend in his Wilmington, Delaware, hometown, the White House announced, as he looks to burnish his legacy before leaving office in January.

Japan has joined the United States and Australia in signing an agreement on a $95 million undersea cable project that will connect East Micronesia island nations to improve networks in the Indo-Pacific region where China is increasingly expanding its influence.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has ruled out a Quad summit taking place in Sydney without President Joe Biden.

President Joe Biden has an ambitious agenda when he sets off this week on an eight-day trip to the Indo-Pacific.

The top diplomats of Australia, India, Japan and the United States say their Indo-Pacific-focused bloc is not aimed at China, but their latest words reflect growing unease over China's influence in the region.

Australia’s new government has urged China to lift trade sanctions if it wants to reset a bilateral relationship that plumbed new depths under the previous administration.

Leaders of the U.S., Japan, Australia and India gathered in Tokyo on Tuesday for a summit of what's known as the Quad.

President Joe Biden has warned fellow leaders of the informal Indo-Pacific security coalition known as the Quad that they are “navigating through a dark hour in our shared history.”.

President Joe Biden has launched a new trade deal with 12 Indo-Pacific nations aimed at strengthening their economies as he warns Americans worried about high inflation that it is “going to be a haul” before they feel relief.

India and Australia’s trade ministers say a shared security partnership with the United States and Japan has helped them strike a trade deal that Australia hopes will reduce its dependence on exports to China.

Japan says it will invest $42 billion in India over the next five years in a deal that is expected to boost bilateral trade.

President Joe Biden and the prime ministers of India, Australia and Japan will talk Thursday in a virtual meeting of the Indo-Pacific alliance known as the Quad that comes a week into the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

A new Biden administration strategy for the Indo-Pacific emphasizes not going it alone in dealing with China's rising influence.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken says Russia could invade Ukraine during the current Beijing Olympics so Americans should leave the Eastern European country immediately.

President Joe Biden has met with other leaders of an Indo-Pacific alliance known as “the Quad” as he wraps up a week of diplomacy with both allies and adversaries.

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga will visit Washington for talks with President Joe Biden on April 16.

(Kiyoshi Ota/Pool via AP)TOKYO – Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said Friday he expects to invite President Joe Biden to the Tokyo Olympics when he visits the United States next month. Suga was asked by a lawmaker in Parliament if he would invite Biden. He replied: “Of course, I expect we will.”The Tokyo Olympics open on July 23. Suga is expected to be the first foreign leader that Biden meets with in person since he took office in January. AdThe prime minister and all 80-90 accompanying staff will receive two doses of a coronavirus vaccine before the trip, officials have said.

Indian Defense Minister Rajnath Singh and U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin sit to deliver a joint press statement in New Delhi, India, Saturday, March 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)NEW DELHI – Top defense officials from India and the United States pledged Saturday to expand their military engagement, underscoring the strengthening defense ties between two countries concerned over China’s growing influence in the Indo-Pacific region. U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Indian Defense Minister Rajnath Singh met in New Delhi and agreed to deepen defense cooperation, intelligence sharing and logistics. I reaffirm our commitment to a comprehensive forward-looking defense partnership with India as a central pillar of our approach to the Indo-Pacific region,” Austin said. The U.S. and India have steadily ramped up their military relationship in recent years and signed a string of defense deals and deepened military cooperation.

(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)President Joe Biden and fellow leaders of the Indo-Pacific group known as the Quad have announced a plan to expand coronavirus vaccine manufacturing capacity in India. It comes as the Biden administration is putting greater emphasis on the Indo-Pacific region in the face of growing economic competition from China. Biden described the effort as “an ambitious new joint partnership that is going to boost vaccine manufacturing ... to benefit the entire Indo-Pacific” region. AdBiden was joined Friday by Vice President Kamala Harris, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and other top national security aides for the virtual meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India, Prime Minister Scott Morrison of Australia and Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga of Japan. “A free and open Indo-Pacific is essential," Biden told fellow Quad leaders at the start of Friday's meeting.

NEW DELHI – A top U.S. envoy speaking in New Delhi has called China “an elephant in the room” and said Washington is keen to advance India’s interests across the Indo-Pacific region. Biegun spoke Monday in New Delhi at the opening session of the India-U.S. Forum as his three-day visit to India kicked off. The Quad is seen as a counterweight to China, who critics say is flexing its military muscle in the South China Sea, East China Sea, Taiwan Strait and along its northern border with India. Biegun noted Monday that Washington has increased military equipment sales and intelligence sharing with India. “Of course, as we advance in this direction, there is an elephant in the room: China,” he said.

Japan, meanwhile, is concerned about China’s claim to the Japanese-controlled Senkaku Islands, called Diaoyu in China, in the East China Sea. Japan also considers China’s growing military activity to be a security threat. Japan and the U.S. have been pushing the FOIP as a way to bring together “like-minded” countries that share concerns about China’s growing assertiveness and influence. Pompeo attended the Quad meeting, but canceled subsequent planned visits to South Korea and Mongolia after President Donald Trump was hospitalized with COVID-19. Pompeo was the only one who explicitly criticized China in opening remarks at the Quad meeting.

Pompeo is attending the Quad meeting, though he canceled subsequent planned visits to South Korea and Mongolia after President Donald Trump was hospitalized with the coronavirus. Japan, meanwhile, is concerned about China's claim to the Japanese-controlled Senkaku Islands, called Diaoyu in China, in the East China Sea. Japan also considers China's growing military activity to be a security threat. New Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga will make his in-person diplomatic debut when he attends part of the Quad meeting. The U.S. and Australia would favor the idea, but Japan and India are ambivalent and so is ASEAN, he said.