{"id":50044,"date":"2022-07-05T10:48:54","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T17:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=50044"},"modified":"2022-07-05T10:48:54","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T17:48:54","slug":"secretary-blinkens-travel-to-bali-and-bangkok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=50044","title":{"rendered":"Secretary Blinken\u2019s Travel to Bali and Bangkok"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>07\/05\/2022 08:20 AM EDT<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Ned Price, Department Spokesperson<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken will travel to the Bali, Indonesia, and Bangkok, Thailand, July 6-11, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary Blinken will first travel to Bali, Indonesia, to attend the G20 Foreign Ministers\u2019 Meeting, where he will reinforce our commitment to working with international partners to confront global challenges, including food and energy insecurity and the threat Russia\u2019s continued war against Ukraine presents to the international order. In addition to attending G20-related engagements, the Secretary will hold a bilateral meeting with Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi.\u00a0 Among other bilateral engagements, Secretary Blinken will also meet with the People\u2019s Republic of China (PRC) State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi on the margins of the G20.<\/p>\n<p>In Bangkok, Thailand, Secretary Blinken will meet with Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha and Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Don Pramudwinai. He looks forward to discussing a range of issues, including building on the successes of Thailand\u2019s APEC 2022 agenda during our 2023 APEC host year, expanding health and climate cooperation, and addressing the crisis in Burma.\u00a0 He will also meet with alumni of U.S. exchange programs, tour the Thai Department of Disease Control\u2019s Emergency Operations Center, and visit a shelter and welfare center for victims of human trafficking.\u00a0 The U.S-Thai Alliance is essential for advancing the President\u2019s Indo-Pacific Strategy for a free and open, connected, prosperous, secure, and resilient region.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>07\/05\/2022 08:20 AM EDT &nbsp; Ned&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50045,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50044\/revisions\/50045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}