When U.S. President Joe Biden sits down with China's Xi Jinping on Monday, don't expect concessions from the U.S. side
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks to media about the Democrats keeping the Senate before the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit, Sunday, Nov. 13, 2022, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — — There won’t be concessions from the U.S. side. No real deliverables, which is government-speak for specific achievements. Don’t expect a cheery joint statement, either.
In a news conference shortly before leaving Washington, Biden said he wanted to “lay out … what each of our red lines are, understand what he believes to be in the critical national interests of China, what I know to be the critical interests of the United States.” “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 things to each of us, going into the next two years.”
Finally, U.S. officials say they’re eager to see where the two superpowers could actually collaborate. Though there are numerous areas in which Biden and Xi won’t see eye to eye, the White House has listed several issues where they conceivably could, including health, counternarcotics and climate change.Xi has yet to give a wish list for talks with Biden, but Beijing wants U.S. action on trade and Taiwan.
Zhao called on the Biden administration to “stop politicizing” trade and embrace Beijing’s claim to sovereignty over Taiwan, the self-ruled island democracy that split with the mainland in 1949 and never has been part of the People's Republic of China.
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