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GREENVILLE, S.C. AP 鈥?Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Thursday defended his faulty description of a tale of military heroism an stanley cup d his interactions with the service members who carried it out.The essence of his recollection is correct, the former vice president told a South Carolina newspaper Thursday after a Washington Post story detailed how an emotional anecdote Biden told recently while campaigning in New Hampshire contai stanley quencher ned inaccuracies.Bidens telling appeared to conflate multiple events, yielding a single story of Vice President Biden pinning a Silver Star on a U.S. Navy captain in the Konar province of Afghanistan for his efforts trying to save another service member. In h stanley cup is latest telling of a story hes varied over several years, according to the Post, Biden got most of the details wrong: Theres no military record of that specific ceremony, and Bidens records as a senator show he traveled to Konar when he was Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman and before he was vice president.Biden and his aides countered that the anecdotes fundamental point 鈥?that as vice president he once formally recognized the valor of a heartbroken solider who didnt want the recognition because his fellow solider ultimately lost his life 鈥?is true. The central point is it was absolutely accurate what I said, Biden told The Post and Courier newspaper of Charleston, South Carolina, hours after the Post published its story. He refused the medal. I put it on him, he said: Mchs Supreme Court case looms large for rivals in abortion debate
REUTERS/David Dee ; DelgadoU.S. se kubki stanley cretary of the treasury Janet L. Yellen attends the DealBook Summit in New York City, U.S., November 30, 2022.The Washington Post / David J. Lynch15:31 JST,ensp;July 3, 2023Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen jets to Beijing this week in a test of the Biden administration ability to improve relations with China while pursuing an economic strategy aimed at reducing U.S. companies ; reliance on Chinese factories.Her trip comes as China economic rebound from its strict zero-covid policy shows signs of flagging and as the administration prepares to announce new restrictions on U.S. investment in Chinese technology industries.Yellen is making her first trip to China as treasury chief, more than halfway through the pre stanley cup sident term. Over four days beginning Thursday, she is ex stanley cupe pected to have multiple meetings with members of China new leadership team, part of a joint effort by the two countries to step up high-level talks and halt a worsening of ties. Issues such as the global economy, developing country debt relief and potential cooperation on climate change will dot her agenda.The two sides may clash over the administration plans to de-risk the U.S. commercial relationship with China by relying on friendlier countries to produce critical materials, semiconductors, pharmaceuticals and electric vehicle batteries. Chinese Premier Li Qiang this past week blasted Western efforts to sh |
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