Biden to highlight gun control in Monterey Park and meet UK and Australian leaders in San Diego

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Biden to highlight gun control in Monterey Park and meet UK and Australian leaders in San Diego

Courtney Subramanian

March 8, 2023

President Biden will travel to California on Monday for a multi-day visit that will include meetings with Australia and the United Kingdom leaders in San Diego and a stop in Monterey Park, the site of one of two mass shootings that rocked California in January . .

Biden will meet with Prime Ministers Rishi Sunak of Britain and Australia’s Anthony Albanese on Monday to highlight the security alliance known as AUKUS, which was launched in 2021 to help Australia acquire nuclear-powered submarines in an effort to counter China. going in the Indo-Pacific region. The president will hold bilateral meetings with his counterparts and is expected to reveal details of US efforts to provide Australia with the technology and nuclear capabilities.

On Tuesday, Biden will stop in Monterey Park where a gunman shot and killed 11 people at a dance studio during a Lunar New Year celebration on Jan. 21. Biden is expected to highlight his gun control efforts, but it is unclear if he will meet with the families of the victims or Brandon Tsay, the 26-year-old who disarmed the gunman at a second dance club.

Tsay was invited to Washington last month for Biden’s State of the Union address, in which the president called him a “hero” as he called on Congress to enact stricter gun control measures.

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