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At the San Francisco meeting, Joe Biden will put pressure on Xi Jinping to resume military communications.
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At the San Francisco meeting, Joe Biden will put pressure on
Xi Jinping to resume military communications.
The US and Chinese
presidents will meet for the first time in a year ahead of the Apec forum.
In a meeting with Xi Jinping ahead of the Asia-Pacific
Economic Cooperation Summit next week, Joe Biden will put pressure on the
Chinese leader over the necessity of resuming communications between the US and
Chinese military. The White House announced on Friday that Xi and Biden would
have a meeting on Wednesday in the San Francisco Bay region before to their
attendance at Apec. In the face of escalating tensions over problems like
Chinese military action close to Taiwan and US efforts to prevent China from
obtaining cutting-edge US technology, the two sides are attempting to redouble
their efforts to stabilize relations. One year after their first encounter at
the G20 in Bali, Indonesia, the summit will mark their second face-to-face
gathering as leaders. Since meeting then-president Donald Trump in Florida in
April 2017, Xi has not traveled to the United States. After meeting with Biden,
Xi is anticipated to go to a dinner with US businesspeople. The possibility of
reopening military communication channels that China closed last year during US
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's travel to Taiwan is among the issues that US
sources indicated the leaders will discuss. Concerns over Chinese fighter jets
flying too close to US spy planes and surveillance aircraft being flown over
the South China Sea by US allies, including Canada, have been voiced by
Washington. "We think that the president has been committed to taking the
required actions to reestablish central military communications between the
United States and China," a US official stated. According to the official,
Biden will discuss with Xi the "dangerous" and
"provocative" military actions by China near Taiwan, which have
increased dramatically since the US president assumed office almost three years
ago. The person declared, "The president will make those points again next
week in San Francisco. He has made them consistently." According to
officials, Biden and Xi would also talk about the situation in Ukraine. In a
two-day meeting in San Francisco, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen revealed on
Friday that she had informed her counterpart He Lifeng that Beijing should take
strict measures against private Chinese enterprises who supply Russia with
technology so that Moscow may wage war on Kiev. "I emphasized that we were
ready to implement additional sanctions and that it is crucial to us that
companies not supply materials for Russia's defense industrial sector,"
Yellen stated. "We hope China takes stronger action [against the
companies], particularly when we supply intelligence." Authorities
emphasized that the Biden-Xi summit, which came after months of high-level
talks, did not signal a shift in US policy toward China but rather an
acknowledgment that the two countries required efficient lines of
communication. According to the US official, "intense competition requires
and demands intense diplomacy to manage tensions and prevent competition from
verging into conflict." "Using diplomacy, we can dispel
misconceptions, communicate, signal, prevent surprises, and justify our
competitive actions." The two leaders will engage in "in-depth
communication on issues of strategic, overarching and fundamental importance in
shaping China-US relations and major issues concerning world peace and
development," according to China's ambassador to the US, Xie Feng.
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