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U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan speaks about President Joe Biden’s trip to Korea and Japan at the White House in Washington Wednesday. [REUTERS/YONHAP]

U.S. President Joe Biden will tour a Samsung Electronics chip manufacturing complex as his first stop on a three-day visit to Seoul, but a visit to the demilitarized zone (DMZ) is not on his itinerary.

Biden’s visit to Samsung’s largest semiconductor plant in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi, is relevant as he is expected to discuss with Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol a global alliance on stronger supply chains, along with other issues like North Korea and the Seoul-Washington alliance.

Biden will be hosted by Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong and Yoon might join them at the factory — a symbol of a new so-called technological alliance between Seoul and Washington.

In a press briefing Wednesday on Biden’s upcoming East Asia tour, U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said, “President Biden will engage with technology and manufacturing leaders in Korea who are mobilizing billions of dollars in investment here in the United States to create thousands of good-paying American jobs.”

Samsung last year announced a $17 billion investment in Taylor, Texas, to build a new chip fabrication plant. Biden’s visit to the chip manufacturing complex is seen as an acknowledgement of Samsung’s investment and his own pledge to expand U.S. domestic semiconductor manufacturing and shore up semiconductor supply chains.

The Biden administration has been looking for ways to reduce the U.S. reliance on China’s high-tech industries by restructuring supply chains around its democratic allies.

“On this trip, he’ll have the opportunity to reaffirm and reinforce two vital security alliances, to deepen two vibrant economic partnerships, to work with two fellow democracies to shape the rules of the road for the 21st century,” said Sullivan, “and to thank his allies in Korea and Japan for their remarkable and in some ways unexpected contributions to the effort to support Ukraine and to hold Russia accountable.”

Sullivan added that Biden will “highlight the truly global nature of the U.S.-ROK alliance, from climate and energy and technology to economic growth and investment.” ROK is an abbreviation of South Korean’s formal name, the Republic of Korea.

Contrary to reports that Biden will make a trip to the DMZ, the White House said that the president is not expected to visit the heavily militarized border separating the two Koreas.

“They [Biden and Yoon] will have an agenda to talk about a lot of things, including North Korea,” White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in the press briefing alongside Sullivan. “But he’s not going to the DMZ.”

The DMZ is a customary stop for a U.S. president during a first visit to Seoul. Biden made visits to the DMZ previously as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in August 2001 and as U.S. vice president in December 2013.

On Saturday, Biden will visit the Seoul National Cemetery to pay tribute to casualties of the 1950-53 Korean War. Yoon and Biden’s summit will begin around 1:30 p.m. at the new Yongsan presidential office. An expanded meeting will immediately follow one-on-one talks. The presidents will hold a joint press conference at 4 p.m. and Yoon will later host an official dinner banquet at the National Museum of Korea at 7 p.m.

A Korea-U.S. business roundtable is expected to be held on Saturday after the summit, hosted by Korean Industry Minister Lee Chang-yang and U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo. The top five conglomerates, Samsung, SK, Hyundai Motor, LG and Lotte, are expected take part in the event. However, Biden is not attending.

The summit comes just 11 days after Yoon’s inauguration.

Biden’s Asia visit comes as the United States is pushing a new economic framework in order to counter China’s growing assertiveness in the region.

Sullivan in the press briefing highlighted that President Yoon “campaigned on the platform of strengthening the U.S.-ROK alliance and on improving relations between the ROK and Japan.”

Biden has pushed for stronger trilateral cooperation among Seoul, Washington and Tokyo, which has been hampered by Korea and Japan’s soured diplomatic relations in recent years due to historical issues and trade restrictions.

Yoon and Biden are also expected to discuss South Korea’s participation in the U.S.-led Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF), set to be launched during Biden’s visit to Japan next week. The IPEF, a comprehensive economic framework for the region proposed by the United States last October, is viewed as a means for members to “decouple” from the Chinese market by finding alternative supply chains.

Sullivan described the IPEF as “a 21st century economic arrangement, a new model designed to tackle new economic challenges from setting the rules of the digital economy to ensuring secure and resilient supply chains to managing the energy transition to investing in clean, modern high-standards Infrastructure.”

The IPEF is expected to go beyond existing free trade agreements (FTAs) that deal with lower tariffs and trade barriers, and establish new trade norms oriented around the United States in the areas of fair and resilient trade; supply chain resilience; clean energy and decarbonization; and tax and anticorruption.

Yoon will attend a virtual meeting launching the IPEF on Tuesday, according to Seoul officials.

Biden’s Tokyo visit from Sunday is to attend a Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, or Quad, meeting. This U.S.-led cooperative forum with Japan, India and Australia is another regional grouping aimed at countering China’s might.

China has responded sensitively to both the Quad and IPEF, and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi raised concerns about U.S.-led containment efforts in talks with his Japanese counterpart Yoshimasa Hayashi Wednesday.

Regarding the Quad summit in Tokyo, Foreign Minister Wang said, according to his ministry’s spokesman, “What is concerning and alarming is that even though the U.S. leader has yet to travel to Japan, the argument that Japan and the U.S. should join hands in confronting China has already been widely circulated, creating pandemonium.”

“We think putting that on display over four days — bilaterally with the ROK and Japan, through the Quad, through the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework — it will send a powerful message,” said Sullivan in his press briefing. “We think that message will be heard everywhere. We think it will be heard in Beijing.

“But it is not a negative message, and it’s not targeted at any one country.”

A meeting between former President Moon Jae-in and Biden is not expected to take place, according to both sides.

“We don’t have a meeting scheduled with President Moon at this time,” said Sullivan in response to Korean reports that Biden and Moon were scheduled to meet. Moon, whose five-year term ended on May 9, has retired to the countryside.

Asked whether there has been discussion on Moon potentially taking on a “special envoy to North Korea” role, Sullivan replied, “I’m not familiar with any discussions along those lines.”

A Moon aide said that they were also notified and not given any “specific reason” for not holding a meeting, but mentioned Biden’s “tight schedule” in Korea. Moon’s side also denied the idea of a “special envoy” role for Moon.

National Security Adviser Kim Sung-han, center, presides over the first National Security Council (NSC) standing committee meeting to review major diplomatic and security issues, including U.S. President Joe Biden’s visit to Korea, at the presidential office bunker in Yongsan, central Seoul Thursday. [NEWS1]

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AN MSNBC host likened Donald Trump to “the abuser” and Chris Wallace and Joe Biden to “the abused” after Tuesday night’s chaotic presidential debate.

MSNBC’s Nicole Wallace blasted President Trump’s performance shortly after the fiery 90-minute debate.

Footage of Nicole condemning the president was shared to MSNBC’s Twitter at 10.54pm on Tuesday night and has been viewed more than 139,000 times.

Speaking to her fellow news anchors, Nicole said: “Chris Wallace did not act as a moderator, Donald Trump did not act as a debater.

“Donald Trump was the abuser, Chris Wallace was among the abused.

“Also among the abused, his opponent, who had a debate challenger who was cheating.”

She also insisted the president was not following the rules which both campaigns consented to.

“The debate moderator didn’t hold his feet to the fire,” Nicole added, referring to Wallace, a political Fox News journalist who was chosen by the nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates to moderate the event.

Wallace was criticized for “losing control” of Trump and Biden.

In response to people suggesting “there was nothing he [Wallace] could do,” Nicole said: “Try driving down the freeway in a rainstorm with an eight-year-old in the back, screaming.

“There’s always something you can do.”

One example, she said, would be to take the iPad out of the car and “throw it out the window.”

She added: “There is always something you can deprive a misbehaved child of – and in this case it was Donald Trump’s desperate need for the oxygen of airtime.”

The “trainwreck” debate between Trump and Joe Biden consisted of constant bickering and interrupting .

Nicole said Trump’s way of debating wouldn’t win over a “suburban woman” and moms across America.

“This felt like an assault. It felt like an assault on our senses,” she continued.

“It felt like an assault on our presidential campaign process. It felt like another assault on our politics.”

Her comparison of Trump to a child is similar to what CNN host Don Lemon said on Wednesday.

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Lemon said: “I felt like I was watching a kid whose doctor had prescribed him too much Adderall .”

Meanwhile, Biden and Trump frequently talked over each other with the president interrupting, so often that Biden eventually snapped at him, “Will you shut up, man?”

The president also refused to condemn white supremacists who have supported him.

President Joe Biden has yet to comment at press time on the specifics of a mass shooting in California this weekend that law enforcement officials said was motivated by hate against the country of Taiwan as he prepares to leave Thursday for a trip to Asia.

David Chou (Chou Wenwei), 68, an American born in Taiwan and later identified as a member of a Chinese Communist Party umbrella organization, allegedly chained shut the doors of the Geneva Presbyterian Church in Laguna Woods, California, and opened fire on a group of Taiwanese congregants during a luncheon to honor a pastor.

He shot and killed one man and injured five others before being subdued by members of the congregation.

The victims in the attack ranged between 66 and 92 years of age.

Authorities said they found items in Chou’s car that indicated he was “upset” by the existence of a Taiwanese state.

68-year-old David Chou (Chou Wenwei), 68, an American born in Taiwan

Taiwan is an island country off the coast of China. It has a democratic government fully independent of Beijing, but the Communist Party insists that the island is a “province” of China. Taiwan has never been governed by any government headquartered in Beijing and China has no practical state powers over Taiwan currently.

The suspect previously appeared at a local Las Vegas protest, holding up a banner against Taiwanese “demons.”

Biden has remained quiet on the attack even during a White House reception to celebrate Asian-American heritage on Tuesday.

The president mentioned “hate crime shootings in Orange County, California; Dallas, Texas, just last week” but did not specifically call out the anti-Tawainese hatred of the shooter.

On Tuesday, Biden traveled to Buffalo, New York, repeatedly promising to call out and expose racism after a shooter, believed to be an anti-black racist, shot and killed ten people in a grocery store.

“Silence is complicity. It’s complicity. We cannot remain silent,” he said.

Police investigate after a shooting inside Geneva Presbyterian Church in Laguna Woods, California, on May 15, 2022. (Getty)

Vice President Kamala Harris also vowed to speak up and condemn racism but has abstained from addressing the California shooting. Harris was celebrated upon her election as the first Asian American vice president, as her mother was born in India.

“The President and I, and all of us as leaders, will not be silent,” Harris said during the White House celebration. “We will not stand by. We must always speak out against violence, against hate crime and discrimination, whenever and wherever it occurs.”

The White House could not explain why Biden remained quiet about the California shooting when reporters asked if he had made calls to the leaders of China and Taiwan or was concerned about tensions between the two countries.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre dismissed the question on Thursday, lumping the allegedly Chinese nationalist-inspired shooting into shooting crimes around the country.

“I don’t have any calls to preview of — calls with Chinese and Taiwan as it relates to this particular case,” she said. “Our thoughts are with all those affected by gun violence, including the incidents — the other incidents that at — that happened this weekend in Houston, in Milwaukee, in Chicago, and, as we know, in Buffalo.”

His Fraudulency Joe Biden’s baby formula shortage is so dire that even far-left CNN has been forced to report on the tragic fallout.

Of course, CNN buried the real news in its own piece. Biden’s baby formula crisis is so bad that at least two children have been forced to undergo surgery.

“Desperate families turn to hospitals when their hunt for formula comes up dry,” reads the headline from CNN, a left-wing propaganda outlet that spreads conspiracy theories and political violence.

On Wednesday, Breitbart News reported on two babies in Tennessee hospitalized over Joe Biden’s failure to provide America’s children with adequate baby formula. Now CNN tells the story of another child. Her name is Alexis Tyler. She’s three years old, and her desperate mother has not been able to find her formula since March.

Now Alexis will have to undergo surgery.

“In the next few days,” CNNLOL reports , “doctors will start the process of admitting Alexis to the hospital to surgically implant a tube into her stomach so her parents can feed her something else.”

Yep. Thanks to Joe Biden, a three-year-old girl will be cut open and implanted with a tube.

Naturally, because they will forever humiliate themselves to protect Democrats, CNN downplays this crisis.

“The problem doesn’t seem to be common,” chirps CNN. “According to interviews with children’s hospitals around the nation, most infants and children—even those on specialty formulas—have been able to work with nutritionists to find acceptable substitutes.”

Oh, okay … in the United States of America, children are being hospitalized and operated on because they can’t get the formula they need to stay alive, something that has not happened in this country in generations — but whatevs, it’s not happening all that much. … And if you think about it, babies dying of starvation is kinda-sorta-like abortion, so what’s the big deal, TrumpTards?

And yet, buried under countless paragraphs of happy talk, CNN tells these horror stories: “In addition to children who need to be admitted to be fed, [Dr. Jenifer] Lightdale says they are seeing desperate families come to the emergency room when they run out of formula and can’t find any more.”

“In terms of numbers,” she admits, “we certainly, you know, basically having a couple at least every day or two showing up.”

Summation: At just one hospital, each and every day, a couple or two are rushing into the emergency room to get their kids fed!

Oh, and CNN found another child forced to undergo surgery. A baby named Clover was hospitalized three times. She wasn’t getting enough to eat. Her parents couldn’t find her formula, and she was diagnosed with “failure to thrive.” The formula is still unavailable. The only option now is surgery.

“We were kind of pushed by doctors to do a G-tube to basically help her get the nutrition that she can’t take by mouth,” her mother told CNN. The surgery was completed two days ago.

This is happening in America…

And you can bet it’s deliberate.

Democrats love scarcity. With the exceptions of illegal aliens, abortions, and gay porn in elementary schools, Democrats want Americans to have less of everything. Less energy , less water , less speech , less housing , and (unless you’re an illegal alien) less baby formula.

Never in my lifetime have people been unable to get enough to eat, much less babies. Until Democrats were put in charge, this was a country of abundance.

Well, those days are over…

Scarcity creates a dependence that empowers the State, which empowers the fascist Democrats in charge of the State.

Democrats deliberately ensure we have less food, water, energy, housing, and speech. They also deliberately deliver the kind of crippling inflation that ensures we have less of everything, including prosperity.

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