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Thursday's global agenda: Veep debate to touch on foreign policy
Your morning global affairs speed-read
The conventional wisdom before last month's attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, was that Vice President Biden, a former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, would steamroll Mitt Romney running mate Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) fairly easily on foreign affairs during Thursday's debate. All that has changed since four Americans were killed in Libya on the anniversary of Sept. 11, however.
Jokes about Lake Superior being overseas aside, Ryan has since joined Romney in slamming the Obama administration's leadership around the world. He laid out his views on foreign policy comprehensively in a 2009 interview with the National Review in which he reminded readers that he's intimately familiar with the U.S. trade agenda through his membership of the House Ways and Means Committee.
GOP attacks on Libya: The Romney campaign quickly jumped on the House oversight panel's grilling of the State Department over its decision not to grant the U.S. embassy in Libya's request for more security in the months prior to the attack.
You can read the Hill's complete coverage from Wednesday's hearing, the opening salvo from oversight panel chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), here:
• Officials to House panel: State denied requests for more security in Benghazi
• Rep. Issa closes in on Clinton
• Cummings to GOP: Restore funds to embassy security
• Issa wants classified briefing on Libya intel
• Issa won't rule out asking Clinton to testify on Benghazi consulate attack
• State Dept. officials contradict claims on deadly Libya attack
• Chaffetz accuses State Department of revealing classified information
• House Republican calls for reprimands at State Dept.
In other news:
Turkey forced down a Syrian passenger plane on suspicions it was carrying weapons, adding to already high tensions in the region. [The Washington Post]
Russia said Wednesday it won't be renewing a U.S.-funded arms-disposal agreement that has helped Moscow safeguard and destroy thousands of nuclear warheads and chemical weapons since the collapse of the Soviet Union. [The Wall Street Journal]
U.S. telecoms firms pushed the line that Chinese rival Huawei is a threat to national security. [The Washington Post]
Mo Yan becomes the first resident of the Chinese mainland to win the Nobel Prize for literature, a sign of China's new standing on the world stage. [Global Times]
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