Joe Biden cannot tie his successor’s hands on China, but his diplomatic engagement can build structures that will help to limit the damage if Donald Trump wins in November
China 's foreign minister Wang Yi speaks as US national security adviser Jake Sullivan looks on before their talks in Beijing last week. Photograph: Ng Han Guan/AFPthe first by a White House national security adviser for eight years, ended without any breakthroughs on the biggest issues dividing the world’s two superpowers.
Last week’s meetings included talks about several fraught issues, including Taiwan, the South China Sea, the war in Ukraine and US restrictions on trade with China. Sullivan and Wang also discussed the Middle East, where China’s friendly relations with Iran as well as the most powerful Arab states and its longstanding support for Palestinian statehood offers it a diplomatic reach different to that of the US and its allies.
Xi and Biden are both due to attend the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro and a meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum in Lima in November. After last week’s talks in Beijing, both the Chinese and the Americans made clear that they expect the two leaders
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