The planned meeting will offer Scott Morrison an important opportunity to cement a personal relationship with Joe Biden eight months after he entered the White House.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison is preparing to use his first one-on-one meeting with Joe Biden later this month to urge the US President to make challenging China’s growing influence in the Asia-Pacific one of his top foreign policy priorities.
Morrison is also expected to hold his first bilateral meeting with Biden since the President took office in January during his trip to Washington. There was consternation in Canberra last month at Biden’s tardiness in calling Morrison to discuss the evacuation effort from Kabul, reflecting a broader frustration among America’s closest allies at the lack of consultation about the withdrawal.Morrison and Biden eventually spoke by phone on September 2, three days after the last US troops left Afghanistan.
The official White House readout of the call said it was part of Biden’s “ongoing effort to responsibly manage the competition between the United States and the PRC”.
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