The News Freedom
Chandigarh, October 26
US President Joe Biden on Thursday said that one of the motivations behind Hamas’s recent terrorist attack on Israel is the announcement made at the G-20 Summit in New Delhi regarding the ambitious India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor. During a joint news conference with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Biden said that his assessment is based on his intuition and lacks concrete evidence.
“I’m convinced one of the reasons Hamas attacked when they did, and I have no proof of this, just my instinct tells me, is because of the progress we were making towards regional integration for Israel, and regional integration overall. We can’t leave that work behind,” Biden said.
Talking about China in a joint statement issued by the White House, Biden also said that “Trust but verify” is the phrase. And, look, China is having their own internal and external difficulties right now. China’s economic growth is stagnant compared to what it was. China has engaged in activities that Russia and many other activities that — that others have engaged in in terms of intimidation and dealing with other countries.
“I think that Chinese President Xi is realizing that there are — for example, his Belt and Road Initiative — well, we’re going to compete on that. And we’re going to — we’re doing it a different way. The Belt and Road Initiative has been a debt and a noose for most of the people that signed on.
We are working with our G7 partners to provide infrastructure for the very nations that he’s trying to deal with.” he added.
He further said we want to — for example, the G — at the G20, we were able to act on a proposal I had to bring — to build a railroad all the way from Riyadh, all the way through the Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Israel, up through Greece, and then across the — not the railroad, but pipeline across the — the Mediterranean up into Europe.