Lalit Kapur - Volume IV, Issue 10

3 Remarks of the Spokesperson of the Chinese Embassy in the Philippines on the Seventh Anniversary of the Wo-called Award on the South China Sea Arbitration, July 12. [...] China’s readout41, on the other hand, emphasised agreement on the two sides working together for a meeting between the heads of state in San Francisco, the need for China-US relations returning to the path of sound and steady development at the earliest, and the need for the two to have “objective understandings of each other’s strategic intentions”. [...] The US-EU Summit and the Indo-Pacific The 2021 US-EU Summit had renewed the transatlantic partnership after the downslide during the Trump Administration. [...] The US-EU Summit of October 20, 2023 continued the process of strengthening the partnership and thus re- binding the EU to the US. [...] The COM emphasised the need to strengthen the capacity of the IORA Secretariat to support member states in addressing complex and multi- dimensional challenges of the future55.