Biden calls Chinese President Xi Jinping about U.S.-China relationship

[beijingwalker]

Biden calls Chinese President Xi Jinping about U.S.-China relationship
BY MARGARET BRENNAN
SEPTEMBER 9, 2021 / 10:24 PM / CBS NEWS


In their first conversation in seven months, President Biden spoke by phone with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday evening. This was a call initiated by Mr. Biden and motivated by what is essentially his exasperation that lower-level Chinese officials have been unwilling to hold substantive conversations with his administration.

A senior administration official said that the president wants to keep the channels of communication open so the two countries do not unintentionally "veer into conflict." The intent is to have a strategic conversation about how to manage competition between the two world powers. The official also said phone call was a test — to see if conversations at the very highest level would be more effective, given Xi's consolidation of power.

Mr. Biden has repeatedly mentioned his personal familiarity with Xi. He told CBS News' Norah O'Donnell in February, "I had 24-25 hours of private meetings with [Xi] when I was vice president, traveled 17,000 miles with him. I know him pretty well."

But the two presidents have yet to hold a face-to-face meeting, and U.S.-China relations have been fraying for years. Biden administration officials have had a series of awkward encounters with their Chinese counterparts since their very first in-person meeting in March, in Anchorage, Alaska. During that session, Chinese diplomats exchanged angry words on camera in front of the press while they stood with both Secretary of State Blinken and National Security adviser Jake Sullivan.

Undersecretary of State Wendy Sherman's visit to Tianjing in July was similarly tense.

"I don't want to convey that diplomacy on specific issues has hit a wall," a senior official said in response to a question about the state of affairs. The official described these earlier interactions as "unfruitful."

U.S. Climate Envoy John Kerry was in China last week to see if the two countries — the world's top polluters — could broker a deal on the shared concern regarding climate. A day earlier, China's foreign minister had rhetorically linked Beijing's potential willingness to cooperate on climate change with the overall U.S.-China relationship.

The Biden administration believes that much of these antics are simply for China's domestic propaganda purposes. The senior administration official stated that Chinese officials are simply reading talking points in order to perform for their bosses during their interactions, and they have no actual ability to negotiate.

"They're trying to see if we'll blink," the senior administration official said.

Biden calls Chinese President Xi Jinping about U.S.-China relationship

The president has been exasperated that lower-level Chinese officials haven't been willing to speak substantively with his administration.

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[beijingwalker]

Biden and China's Xi discuss managing competition, avoiding conflict in call
Reuters
September 10, 2021

WASHINGTON, Sept 9 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden spoke by phone with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping for about 90 minutes on Thursday, a senior U.S. official said, with both leaders discussing the need to avoid letting competition between the world's two largest economies veer into conflict.

Relations between Washington and Beijing have been at their lowest point in decades and it was only the second call between the leaders since Biden took office in January.

A White House statement said the two leaders had "a broad, strategic discussion," including "areas where our interests converge, and areas where our interests, values, and perspectives diverge."

The conversation focused on economic issues, climate change and COIVD-19, the senior U.S. official said.


Chinese state media said the conversation was "candid" and "in-depth", adding that President Xi said U.S. policy on China imposes great difficulties on relations between the two.

The Chinese report added that both sides agreed to maintain frequent contact and to ask working-level teams to increase communications.

Occasional high-level meetings since Xi and Biden's first call in February have yielded scant progress on a slew of issues, from climate change, to human rights, and transparency over the origins of COVID-19. read more

During the ensuing months, the two sides have lashed out at each other on an almost constantly, often resorting to vitriolic public attacks, slapping sanctions on each other's officials and criticizing the other for not upholding their international obligations.


"President Biden underscored the United States' enduring interest in peace, stability, and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific and the world and the two leaders discussed the responsibility of both nations to ensure competition does not veer into conflict," the statement said.

The Biden administration, preoccupied by a chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, has signaled that ending America's longest war will give U.S. political and military leaders the space to focus on more pressing threats stemming from China's rapid rise.

But Beijing has been quick to seize on the U.S. failure in Afghanistan to try to portray the United States as a fickle partner and China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi said last month that Washington should not expect China's cooperation on that or other issues if it was also trying to "contain and suppress" China.

Facing stalemate in ties, Biden and China's Xi discuss avoiding conflict in call

U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping spoke for 90 minutes on Thursday, in their first talks in seven months, discussing the need to ensure that competition between the world's two largest economies does not veer into conflict.

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[ozranger]

I can imagine all those visits and phone calls are T-Bonds centric. People may wonder why, as most of T-Bonds are held by American investors. T-Bonds held by Americans are not a good thing and can only trigger hyper inflation in the country. Only T-bonds bought by big foreign investors really matter to America's economy. Obviously, Japan has reached its full capacity and cannot buy more than it can swallow in the context that Japan and China are the only two countries in the world which can buy significant amount of T-Bonds to help the US. Let's see if Biden's begging works or not.

 

[MH.Yang]

What is "lower-level Chinese officials"? It's impolite.

 

[serenity]

I can imagine all those visits and phone calls are T-Bonds centric. People may wonder why, as most of T-Bonds are held by American investors. T-Bonds held by Americans are not a good thing and can only trigger hyper inflation in the country. Only T-bonds bought by big foreign investors really matter to America's economy. Obviously, Japan has reached its full capacity and cannot buy more than it can swallow in the context that Japan and China are the only two countries in the world which can buy significant amount of T-Bonds to help the US. Let's see if Biden's begging works or not.

They are trying to find ways to avoid the inflation and keep their same 1970s onwards economic game running. Most smart money predictions on hyperinflation and economic collapse for example from Dalio and others in similar positions have not been proven right yet. I don't know how they are able to delay it seems new school of economic thinking they are calling neo monetary policy after covid with regards to old ideas of quantitative easing is the experiment and seems to be working so far. If it fails however, the outcome would devastate most of USA and hurt world economies. They cannot pass the problem on but they will not go down alone.

 

[ozranger]

They are trying to find ways to avoid the inflation and keep their same 1970s onwards economic game running. Most smart money predictions on hyperinflation and economic collapse for example from Dalio and others in similar positions have not been proven right yet. I don't know how they are able to delay it seems new school of economic thinking they are calling neo monetary policy after covid with regards to old ideas of quantitative easing is the experiment and seems to be working so far. If it fails however, the outcome would devastate most of USA and hurt world economies. They cannot pass the problem on but they will not go down alone.

Why does hyper inflation not happen yet in America? Very simple. American banks and investors buy overseas premium assets with freshly printed US Dollars before their value having a free fall. If you look at Australian market,

What you can see includes,

• High up prices of real estate properties in last one year. Look at Sydney and Melbourne.
• Lots of ongoing company mergers. My company acquired 5 other companies in last one year with money from new investors.

In conclusion, they are exporting inflation to the world.

Funny thing is that Australia's propagandist and brainwashing media said the house prices were pushed up and businesses were acquired by Australian expats coming back from the US. Australian expats in America are too rich, isn't it? Then why they come back? LOL it doesn't matter to me for at least my house value experienced a great appreciation so far.

However that explains why so many countries are now conducting the so called dedollarisation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dedollarisation .

 

[beijingwalker]

In the end US will have a rude awakening and realize only China can save America.

 

[BHAN85]

USA is a wallstreet banksters dictatorship, American politicians are just clowns under the bankers orders.

American politicians have no real power, unlike Chinese politicians.

If you like to know what really think the real USA power about China, listen to Soros, and dont listen their politicians employees.

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[CAPRICORN-88]

It is about time.

What takes him so long to figure that out?
Biden do have a rapport with Chinese

President Xi as President Obama former VP.
That is also what Singapore PM has been advising US VP Kamala Harris in quiet.

To open their dialogue with China and improve their tie with China and stop all the provocative and aggressive move in China backyard.

Openly informing him that ASEAN would neither join the QUAD nor be taking side with USA against China.

 

[casual]

There's really nothing to talk about unless US lays off Taiwan.

 

[CAPRICORN-88]

There's really nothing to talk about unless US lays off Taiwan.

China has already issued its redline and Biden better heeds it before it erupts into a useless and uproductive conflict.
Taiwan reunification with the mainland is unavoidable.

Biden, Xi talk to avoid US-China 'conflict': White House

Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Joe Biden talked by phone for the second time this year. (Photos: AFP)
10 Sep 2021 10:47AM (Updated: 10 Sep 2021 10:47AM)

WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden talked with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping for the first time in seven months on Thursday (Sep 9), urging they ensure that "competition" between the two powers does not become "conflict", the White House said.
During the call, Biden's message was that the United States wants to ensure "the dynamic remains competitive and that we don't have any situation in the future where we veer into unintended conflict", a senior US administration official told reporters.

This was the leaders' first call since February, when they talked for two hours, shortly after Biden took over from Donald Trump.
US-China relations went into a nosedive under Trump, who launched a trade war between the world's number one and two economies. Biden's administration, while urging multilateralism and an end to Trump's "America first" ideology, has kept trade tariffs in place and remains tough on other contentious areas of the relationship with Beijing.
However, the White House signaled that the diplomatic impasse is unsustainable and potentially dangerous, requiring intervention by the leaders in Thursday's call.
"We welcome stiff competition but we don't want that competition to veer into conflict," the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told reporters.
The goal of the call was to set out "guardrails" so that the relationship can be "managed responsibly."

Lower level attempts to engage with China have not gone well, especially at an angry March exchange between Secretary of State Antony Blinken and top Chinese officials when they met in Anchorage, Alaska.
"We have not been very satisfied with our interlocutors' behavior," the senior official told reporters.
Accusing the Chinese of being mostly "unwilling to engage in serious or substantive" talks, the official said "we don't believe that that is how responsible nations act, especially given the global importance of the US-China competition."
Faced with the impasse, "President Biden understood the importance of engaging President Xi directly", the official said.
According to a readout from the White House after the call, Biden and Xi had "discussed areas where our interests converge, and areas where our interests, values, and perspectives diverge".

NO "BREAKTHROUGHS"
Thursday's call focused on "broad and strategic" issues, with no concrete decisions expected on outstanding issues or setting up a first Biden-Xi summit, the official said.
The list of disagreements between Washington and Beijing is long and growing.
Beyond trade, with the White House official complaining of "China's unfair and coercive trade practices", there is deepening tension over China's claims to Taiwan and numerous islands in the South China Sea.
There are areas where the two powers also find themselves having to cooperate or at least coordinate, including on North Korea's nuclear weapons program and the climate crisis.

 

[大汉奸柳传志]

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[REhorror]

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[shi12jun]

The Chinese people oppose the Chinese government's relief to the United States

 

[Beast]

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