US-Led Americas Coalition Backs Sanctions Against Crime Groups
- On Tuesday, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi meets U.S. President Donald Trump in New York, having arrived Monday night to coordinate strategies before the U.S.-China summit scheduled for Thursday.
- Tokyo officials seek to prevent Taiwan from becoming a bargaining chip in U.S.-China negotiations, viewing the island's stability as inseparable from Japan's own strategic environment and regional security.
- Japan leverages a $550 billion investment commitment in the United States to secure critical supply chains, while seeking to prevent China's dual-use export restrictions from fragmenting the U.S. technology-control regime.
- President Trump will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping in Washington on Thursday, two days after the Takaichi-Trump talks, as Tokyo works to narrow the space for a 'grand bargain' at its expense.
- Expanding its regional security footprint, Japan has increased its Official Security Assistance budget to 18.1 billion yen, deepening cooperation with Australia and Indonesia to strengthen deterrence across the Indo-Pacific.
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US President Donald Trump has called on the countries of the Shield of the Americas alliance to impose sanctions on 24 drug cartels operating in the Americas. The call was made at a summit of leaders of the alliance on the sidelines of the annual session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on September 23, 2026. Trump said: “Today I call on all countries of the Americas to officially declare narco-terrorists a common threat to sta…
Donald Trump calls for joint sanctions against 24 organizations that the US designates as terrorist. Mr. Trump urged on Tuesday the countries that have joined the “Shield of the Americas” alliance, which includes, in addition to the US, several countries in South America where the right-wing government is in power, to proceed with the imposition of sanctions against 24 gangs that are ravaging the continent.
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US-led Americas coalition backs sanctions against crime groups
"I'm asking all nations in the Shield of the Americas to formally designate narco-terrorists as common threats to stability," Trump told a gathering of the alliance on the sidelines of the annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations. The "Shield of the Americas," is a coalition pro-US administrations convened by Trump to combat drug trafficking and organized crime across the region. On Tuesday, 15 governments in the coalition issued …
Trump's Latin American coalition backs sanctions on 24 crime groups: "Cartels are the ISIS of the Western Hemisphere"
Trump on Tuesday urged a US-led coalition in Latin America to impose sanctions on 24 criminal networks hours after comparing regional cartels to ISIS.
Trump put the focus of security back on the southern border and insisted that the territorial dominance of cartels in Mexico is "unacceptable"
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