US president Joe Biden sat down with China’s president Xi Jinping for the first bilateral discussion between the leaders in 12 months. Speaking to media afterwards, Biden elaborated on three key components of the discussions including a collaborative effort to stop the flow of Fentanyl from China to the West, the ongoing threat of AI and re-establishing direct military communication. The Guardian
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‘Planet Earth is big enough for two’: Biden and Xi meet for first time in a year
Joe Biden and Xi Jinping met in California on Wednesday, exchanging handshakes and smiles as they embarked on face-to-face dialogues that both sides hope will stabilise US-China relations. The US president opened his remarks by saying that tensions between the two countries should “not veer into conflict”. The Chinese president responded by saying that “turning their back on each other is not an option” for the superpowers. “Planet Earth is big enough for the two countries to succeed, and one country’s success is an opportunity for the other,” he said.…
US and China’s joint climate plan leaves key questions unanswered
The US and China’s decision to rekindle a joint effort to tackle the climate crisis has provided sorely needed momentum ahead of crucial UN climate talks later this month, while still leaving some key questions unresolved around calling an end to the fossil fuel era. The difficult relationship between the world’s two largest carbon emitters has somewhat thawed over the issue of global heating, with both sides indicating they see it as a shared menace set aside from other tensions around trade or the status of Taiwan. The US and…
Joe Biden and Xi Jinping to meet today in first face-to-face meeting in a year – live
Utah’s Republican senator Mitt Romney has released a statement ahead of Joe Biden’s meeting with Xi Jinping today, urging the Biden administration to be “clear-eyed in its understanding of China’s nefarious economic intentions.” In his statement, Romney said: “Our government cannot continue to chase China with offers of concessions without concrete action from the Chinese Communist party, especially in instances where they have no interest in making meaningful changes to their own behavior in the first place.” <gu-island name="TweetBlockComponent" priority="feature" deferuntil="visible" props="{"element":{"_type":"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TweetBlockElement","html":" My statement ahead of President Biden's meeting with…
Xi Jinping in US for first time in six years to meet with Biden and attend summit
Xi Jinping began his first visit to the United States in six years on Tuesday just after US secretary of state Antony Blinken took a thinly veiled swipe at Beijing by stressing the need for freedoms and rule of law. The Chinese president is on his first visit to the US since 2017. He is due to meet Joe Biden at an undisclosed location in San Francisco on Wednesday morning and then attend the annual summit of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) forum. Xi’s summit with the US president…
Biden and Xi to announce deal cracking down on fentanyl export
Joe Biden and Xi Jinping are set to announce an agreement for China to crack down on the manufacture and export of fentanyl, the primary culprit in a synthetic drug epidemic blamed as the leading killer of Americans between 18 and 49. Bloomberg reported that under the deal – which the US and Chinese presidents are still finalizing – China would go after chemical companies to halt the flow of fentanyl and the source material used to make it. In return, Biden’s White House would lift restrictions on China’s forensic…
Xi-Biden meeting overshadowed by conflicts in Ukraine and Israel – and US stance on Taiwan
One year after their last in-person talks, Xi Jinping and Joe Biden will come face to face once again on Wednesday in San Francisco, in an encounter that will dominate events at the Apec summit as the Chinese and US presidents seek to stabilise relations in an increasingly fraught geopolitical climate. The meeting, which could last several hours, is the culmination of months of lower level dialogues which took place over the summer, with Washington sending more delegates to China than Beijing did to the US. The fact of China’s…
Joe Biden and Xi Jinping to meet on sidelines of Apec summit
The US president, Joe Biden, will meet the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, face-to-face for the first time in a year on Wednesday, the White House said, in high-stakes diplomacy aimed at curbing tensions between the world’s two superpowers. The closely watched interaction, on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit in the San Francisco Bay Area, could last hours and involve teams of officials from Beijing and Washington. It is expected to cover global issues from the Israel-Hamas war to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, North Korea’s ties with…
Can Anthony Albanese catch the dragon’s tail to defrost and reboot Australia-China relations? | Katharine Murphy
Five decades ago, almost to the day, Gough Whitlam raised a brimming glass to the party chairman Mao Zedong and the Chinese premier Zhou En-lai after delivering a speech at a welcome banquet at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. This story might be new to you, so let’s step through the history. Whitlam went to China in 1971, while he was still opposition leader – ahead of Richard Nixon’s groundbreaking official visit in 1972. Completely unaware of Nixon’s impending diplomatic overture, the then Australian prime minister Bill…
Biden expected to meet with Xi Jinping next month for ‘constructive’ talks
Joe Biden is expected to meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping on the sidelines of a summit in San Francisco in November for “constructive” talks, the White House said on Tuesday. The comments came days after China’s foreign minister made a rare visit to Washington to pave the way for Xi to meet Biden at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit. China has not yet confirmed that Xi will come. “We’re aiming to have a constructive conversation, meeting between the leaders in San Francisco in November,” the White House press secretary,…