Biden will push China to resume military ties with US, official says
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President Biden will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping in person for the first time in a year during a summit in San Francisco. It will be the second in-person meeting between the two leaders since Biden took office.

Biden will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping in person for the first time in a year on Wednesday during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in San Francisco.

“The president is determined to see the re-establishment of military-to-military ties because he believes it’s in the U.S. national security interest,” Sullivan said in an interview with CBS

Sullivan said on CNN’s “State of the Union” that Biden would seek to “advance the ball” on military ties during his meeting with Xi, but declined to provide further details.

The Biden-Xi meeting is expected to cover global issues from the Israel-Hamas war to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, North Korea’s ties with Russia, Taiwan, the Indo-Pacific, human rights, fentanyl production, artificial intelligence, as well as “fair” trade and economic relations, a senior U.S. official said.

  • Great_Leader_Is_Dead@hexbear.netEnglish
    36·
    1 year ago

    Eh, Chinas gotta do realpolitik and also I think nuclear powers trying to cool tensions is a good thing even if it means you gotta jerk some Libs off.

    • GaveUp [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      30·
      1 year ago

      I don’t think I’ve ever seen tensions cool off after US China meeting in the last 3 years

      It usually ends up with US putting out an aggressive statement

      • GarbageShoot [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        33·
        1 year ago

        It still is to the benefit of China’s foreign relations in general to offer reasonable, cooperative proposals and then have them be rejected. It makes the US look terrible.

        • GaveUp [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
          23·
          1 year ago

          I’m mostly shook Xi decided to go tbh

          Should’ve only sent Wang to snub the US and not risk any ClA ops like with COVID

          • Kaplya@hexbear.netEnglish
            15·
            1 year ago

            Nobody in the world can afford to piss off the United States.

            After throwing tantrum for a while, both China and the US realize that they ultimately need one another.

            It’s an abusive relationship, it’s never easy to get out. China thought it could leave America and get intimate with the failson Russia, who is ultimately too poor and useless to keep China’s massive economy on track. Only America’s deep consumer market can possibly satisfy China’s vast manufacturing industrial capacity.

            That’s not to say decoupling is not possible, it’s simply very painful, and like all abusive relationships, it’s harder to leave than you think. Many eventually go back to their abusers after a while.