- Vice president Kamala Harris arrived in Singapore at the weekend on Sunday for her second foreign trip
- Held round table with business leaders and discussed threats from climate change to global supply chains
- She said that people should consider buying their Christmas presents now, but didn’t mention Afghanistan
- In a major policy speech later on Monday she issued warnings of threats posed by China
- Harris said Beijing was menacing countries in the South China Sea region, threatening stability
- On Tuesday Harris is set to depart for Vietnam, and later in the week she will return to California on Friday
Kamala Harris on Monday discussed Christmas shopping and climate change, but failed in her major foreign policy speech to mention the current crisis in Afghanistan.
Harris, addressing a roundtable of business leaders before her speech, warned that climate change and the pandemic have contributed supply chain issues, The New York Times reported, and suggested parents should consider getting Christmas presents now.
‘The stories that we are now hearing about the caution that if you want to have Christmas toys for your children, it might now be might be the time to start buying them, because the delay may be many, many months,’ she said.
‘So across the board, people are experiencing the issue.
‘And, of course, the climate crisis is fueling a lot of this. When we look at the stronger typhoons that have disrupted shipping lanes and sea level rise, which threatens port infrastructure as an example. So these are the many issues that are that are causing these disruptions.’