Third-term Chinese leader Xi Jinping is due to meet United States President Joe Biden face-to-face for the first time since Biden was tagged to the White House, with the US leader buoyed by a stronger-than anticipated performance in the quiz choices.
The two men will meet in Bali, Indonesia, on Monday, ahead of a Group of 20(G20) peak overshadowed by Russia’s irruption of Ukraine, which has further strained the relationship between the US and China. The two countries are also at odds over issues including Taiwan, North Korea, and trade.
On the dusk of his meeting with Xi, Biden told Asian leaders in Cambodia that US communication lines with China would remain open to help conflict but that the addresses were anticipated to be tough.
Biden told journalists that he’d “always had straightforward conversations” with Xi, and that has averted either of them from “misapprehensions” of their intentions.
“I know him well, he knows me,” Biden said. “We’ve just got to figure out where the red lines are and what are the most important effects to each of us, going into the coming two times.”
Biden arrived in Bali on Sunday night, as the Egalitarians were verified to have retained control of the Senate after performing better than anticipated in the quiz choices. Xi, who secured an unknown third term at last month’s Communist Party Congress and is China’s most important leader since Mao Zedong, is due to arrive on the Indonesian islet on Monday.
The planned addresses have entered little content in Chinese state media, which have reported that Xi will also be holding bilateral meetings with French President Emmanuel Macron, Senegalese President Macky Sall, and Argentinian President Alberto Fernandez.
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“There are low prospects from China and the most positive outgrowth is maybe that the two sides are keeping communication channels open,” said Al Jazeera’s Patrick Fok who’s in Beijing.
Relations between the US and China have deteriorated sprucely in recent times over issues ranging from Hong Kong and Taiwan to the South China Sea, coercive trade practices, and US restrictions on Chinese technology.
Pressures rose further after US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi traveled to Taiwan in August. Beijing claims the tone-ruled islet as its own and was rankled by the trip, carrying out days of air and nonmilitary drills around the islet after Pelosi’s departure.
Biden and Xi, who have held five phone or videotape calls since Biden came chairman in January 2021, last met in person during the Obama administration when Biden was vice chairman.
Monday’s meeting is doubtful to produce a common statement, the White House has said, but there’s stopgap could lead to a more stable relationship between the world’s two largest husbandry.
China has indicated its focus for the addresses will be US action on trade and Taiwan.
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Zhao Lijian, a Chinese foreign ministry prophet, called on the Biden administration to “stop politicizing” trade and grasp Beijing’s claim to sovereignty over Taiwan.
Beijing also wants Washington to lift tariffs assessed by former President Donald Trump in 2019 and to ease restrictions on Chinese access to chips and other US technology. Biden has left utmost of those in place and added checks on access to technology that US officers say can be used in munitions development.
“The United States needs to stop politicising, weaponising, and ideologising trade issues,” Zhao said at a briefing.
World politics is also likely to feature prominently in the conversations with Biden prompting Beijing to take a further assertive approach to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The Chinese leader has largely abstained from a public review of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s conduct, with Beijing abstaining in crucial United Nations votes.
“We believe that, of course, every country in the world should do further to prevail upon Russia, especially those who have connections with Russia, to end this war and leave Ukraine,” said US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan.
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officers say Biden will also prompt China to rein in supporter North Korea after this time’s unknown number of bullet tests and prospects Pyongyang might soon carry out its seventh nuclear test.
“Beijing has an integral part to play in encouraging North Korean restraint and incentivizing demilitarization,” Leif-Eric Easley, associate professor of transnational studies at Ewha Woman’s University in Seoul, said in a posted comment. “Although there’s little chance the Biden- Xi meeting during the G20 will incontinently increase cooperation, the frame for dealing with Pyongyang shouldn’t be ‘Cold War 2.0’ but rather a multinational defense of the transnational order.”
The G20 peak will formally open on Tuesday.
It’s only Xi’s alternate foreign trip since COVID- 19 first surfaced in the central megacity of Wuhan nearly three times agone. His first overseas visit since the outbreak of the epidemic was a September peak with Putin and leaders from Central Asia although he didn’t attend a regale or print occasion where Putin and others wore no masks.
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES
