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    As Biden meets South Korean leader, Mideast again distracts him from focusing on Asia

    by Eli Stokols and Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times May 21, 2021 4 minutes

    WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden hosts South Korean President Moon Jae-in at the White House on Friday for his second in-person meeting with a foreign leader, and the second with a leader from Asia, a bit of scheduling that underscores his eagerness to shift U.S. foreign policy priorities to the Indo-Pacific region from the war-torn Middle East.

    Yet like a recurring scene from a "Godfather" sequel, the Mideast conflicts keep pulling a U.S. president back.

    Preparations for the summit with Moon have been overshadowed by nearly two weeks of intense violence between Israelis and Palestinians and rising pressure on Biden to intervene to help end the fighting.

    Even if the

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