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Advance US News Diary

September 10-18: White House anti-hate summit, UK mourns passing of Queen Elizabeth II, Putin and Xi meet

September 9, 2022
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A look ahead at the key events leading the news agenda next week, from the team at Foresight News. Delivered to your inbox on Fridays.

Leading the week

Following President Joe Biden’s controversial address in Philadelphia accusing Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans of being “a threat to democracy”, on Thursday (September 15) he will gather a wide range of groups including civil rights activists, faith leaders, law enforcement officials, and gun violence prevention advocates for the United We Stand Summit. The event marks a continuation of Biden’s framing of the current moment in America as representing “a battle for the soul of the nation”, a phrase he memorably employed in announcing his bid for the presidency in the wake of the violence in Charlottesville in 2017. He used it again in his September 1 speech, with Trump countering a few days later that it had been “the most vicious, hateful, and divisive speech ever delivered by an American president”. And while the White House is billing next week’s event as a bipartisan gathering aimed at fostering unity, it’s likely to elicit further accusations that Biden is labeling ordinary Americans enemies of the state. Trump’s next major rally, as it happens, is planned for Saturday (September 17) in Youngstown, Ohio. 


Looking abroad

Following the death of Queen Elizabeth II yesterday, the next 10 days are a whirlwind of meticulously planned ceremony, beginning with the formal accession ceremony and proclamation of the reign of King Charles III on Saturday (September 10). While Buckingham Palace hasn’t yet confirmed the full timeline and all events are subject to change, we have a good idea what we can expect thanks to Operation London Bridge, a plan setting out what should happen on each day after The Queen’s death. On Sunday (September 11), The Queen’s coffin is expected to travel from Balmoral to the official Royal residence in Scotland, the Palace of Holyroodhouse, before being flown to London and on to Buckingham Palace on Tuesday (September 13). A procession from there to the Palace of Westminster follows on Wednesday (September 14), which will see members of the public line the street to pay their respects, ahead of a service in the 1000-year-old Westminster Hall, where The Queen will lie in state for four days. A state funeral, the first in the UK since that held for the wartime prime minister Winston Churchill, is then expected on September 19, which will be a public holiday and a Day of National Mourning across the UK.

Queen Elizabeth II
The late Queen Elizabeth II, who passed away on September 8

Uzbekistan rarely features in the news, but next week all eyes will be on the Silk Road city of Samarkand, which is hosting the annual summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization on Thursday and Friday (September 15-16). News earlier this week confirming that Chinese President Xi Jinping will attend the summit in person and plans to meet one-to-one with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on the margins has galvanized interest in what was already shaping up to be a star-studded affair. Other leaders expected to attend include a who’s who of regional players, featuring Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. But the Putin-Xi meeting, their first in-person encounter since Putin launched his offensive in Ukraine back in February, looks set to garner the most interest, particularly as it comes at a particularly tense moment in relations between Washington and Beijing.  

Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping
Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, who will meet one-to-one in Samarkand

The latest session of the UN Human Rights Council opens on Monday (September 12) in Geneva, the first since former rights chief Michelle Bachelet issued her bombshell report on the situation in China’s Xinjiang province. The report, which provoked a predictably furious response from Beijing, came on Bachelet’s last day in office, with no successor in place. Yesterday, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres announced the nomination of Volker Türk, an Austrian had been Under-Secretary-General for Policy, for the post. Although Türk’s appointment was subsequently approved by the UN General Assembly, Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Nada Al-Nashif will kick things off on Monday with an oral update, with states responding during the general debate, which follows on Tuesday and Wednesday (September 13 and 14). The session will cover rights in a wide range of countries, but there will be particular interest in the findings of the Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine, which will be presented on September 23. 


 

Also look out for...

September 12

Joe Biden visits Boston 

Antony Blinken visits Mexico 

Josh Hawley and Marco Rubio speak at National Conservatism Conference 

IAEA Board of Governors begins meeting 

Olaf Scholz holds talks in Berlin with Yair Lapid 

Primetime Emmy Awards

September 13

Consumer Price Index (inflation) 

Primaries in NH, RI, and DE 

Senate Judiciary Committee hears from Twitter whistleblower 

William Ruto sworn in as Kenyan president 

Pope Francis begins Kazakhstan visit

September 14

Joe Biden visits Michigan 

Top health officials at Senate hearing on Monkeypox 

Pray Vote Stand Summit opens

September 15

Indiana’s near-total abortion ban takes effect

September 16

Joe Biden hosts South African president for White House talks 

NATO chiefs meet in Estonia 

Apple iPhone 14 goes on sale

September 17

Munich’s Oktoberfest opens

September 18

Joe Biden heads to New York for UN General Assembly

Statistics, Reports and Results

September 13

Income, Poverty and Health Insurance statistics 

OPEC Monthly Oil Markets

September 14

US Producer Price Index 

UK consumer and producer prices

September 15

Advance monthly retail sales  

US industrial production figures 

US manufacturing and trade figures

September 16

US Consumer Sentiment Index 

China monthly economic data 

EU inflation statistics 

UK retail sales figures 

Russian Central Bank interest rate announcement

Anniversaries and Awareness Days

September 12

UN Day for South-South Cooperation

September 13

World Sepsis Day 

Roald Dahl Day

September 15

World Afro Day 

International Day of Democracy 

Battle of Britain Day

September 16

Mexican Independence Day 

International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer

September 17

World Patient Safety Day

September 18

International Equal Pay Day


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