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© Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.Xi-Biden talks raise hope for better ties but strains remain
By KEN MORITSUGU and AAMER MADHANI BEIJING©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
33 Comments
Wolfpack
What about the covid lab leak investigation?
quercetum
If Joe’s smile didn’t reduce tensions between the two countries, nothing will.
PTownsend
Trump did serve Xi a really good chocolate cake at one of his his golf resorts, which US taxpayers paid for.
and Trump did say many positive things about Xi as the pandemic was spreading
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/15/trump-china-coronavirus-188736
And similar to dictator Kim; Trump also said "he loved Xi', that they loved each other". Mutual beliefs in predatory capitalism and disdain for the non-elite attract after all.
https://www.politico.eu/article/trump-on-chinas-xi-we-love-each-other/
Peter14
China is also "playing with fire" with threats of invasion. China should also watch out or IT will be the one that gets burned.
lincolnman
President Biden recognizes that Xi "doesn't have a democratic bone in his body"....
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-biden-china-idAFKBN2BH2ZE
In comparison to the previous guy that gave the CCP millions (and still does) and has lavished Xi with praise...
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/15/trump-china-coronavirus-188736
Even to the extent to say "it's great" and "he's great" for declaring himself dictator for life....
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-trump-china-idUSKCN1GG015
And when the heel of the CCP came down on democracy protesters in Hong King, you know who had Xi's back....
*Trump has voiced his strongest support for Chinese President Xi Jinping, not the protesters seeking democratic reforms, p*raising the Communist leader as “a good man in a ‘tough business.’”
“If President Xi would meet directly and personally with the protesters, there would be a happy and enlightened ending to the Hong Kong problem,” Trump tweeted Thursday. “I have no doubt!”
And we have no doubt about Trump's utter and complete incompetence and admiration for dictators and tyrants...
Aly Rustom
If China can sort out its blackouts first. If you want to be the next superpower, it helps to have electricity! LOL!
RegBilk
President Xi looks very happy about his continued, prosperous, long relationship with the Bidens.
Desert Tortoise
Looking at the lead photo it looks like while both are smiling for the sake of posterity, one can image each of them calling the other a bad name under their breath. Xi was posted in the US for a time to study US agriculture and apparently speaks English to some extent.
quercetum
It’s a genuine smile, a warm Thanksgiving family gathering seeing an old friend type of smile. Don’t see Joe as duplicitous. He just may not be as strong a leader as some would like. Xi looks the same.
Desert Tortoise
You can't even safely drink the tap water in China. Everyone drinks bottle water. Big ol' Shanghai, their second largest city with a population greater than many countries and most US states, and financial capital of China but something as basic as safe tap water is beyond their ability to provide. Men's rooms in really big hospitals have no soap and no paper towels or hand dryers. Same in restaurants. Gross. See a cook leave the stall, rinse their hands in cold water and head back to the kitchen. No heat, everyone wears parkas indoors during the cold winter months. Fancy looking medical office or restaurant and no heat. We'll see how long the Chinese put up with endless sudden lockdowns every time there is a covid case somewhere.
Alex
Of course! Who else if not China will provide all the supplies and materials for the infrastructure project.
Alex
Sounds like Flint, MI
FizzBit
lipstick on a pig.
Yeah right, like the corporate MSM is actually gonna talk truth about the global corporate scam going on for decades. I still haven’t once seen any corporate news ask why the US postal service can charge China so little to ship a coffee cup to the US, but charge a US business much much more. This can only be achieved through corrupt politicians.
LOL
If China becomes the new world order, it’s pretty much guaranteed it won’t last long, much like 80% of the plastic products they make.
bass4funk
And Biden said exactly what to Xi about being careful not to think about invading Taiwan?
Xi called Biden old friend, Biden denies that, why would Xi do that? Someone is lying here. You don’t call someone old friend if you met them for the first time, takes years and years of trust and having a deep relationship to call someone that.
He probably did, at least he was honest about it.
Dunno, with this infrastructure monstrosity big tech seems to be very happy, the richest people in the country that work in Silicon Valley and Hollywood are excited about this, but yeah they do have to destain and contempt for the average Working Man.
Pukey2
wolfpack:
What about the covid lab leak investigation?
That's what I'd like to know too. However, America refuses to allow investigators into Fort Detrick. You know, the place where numerous outbreaks have happened, the latest of which was a 'respiratory outbreak' in mid-2019 which lead to deaths in a Virginia retirement home and god knows how many other people.
Peter14:
China has always insisted that Taiwan was a part of China, and so does practically every country on the planet, and the KMT themselves. The only ones playing fire are the ones trying to find excuses to start YET another war. Just waiting for the WMD.
Strange how Xi was able to make greetings while looking at the camera, while Biden had to keep referring to notes. Anyway, there was a time when these two were able to be friendly, but Biden has been put into a hole, not helped by the fact that, suddenly, last year, Pompeo delists ETIM as a terrorist organization. Why? So that America can legally start funding a terrorist organization.
nishikat
US general called China over fears Trump could order war
(news source)
The worst part is over with Trump gone. Him refusing to accept loss made this happen and hopefully Biden can fix things.
I checked around in the Science Fiction section of Netflix and could find no such story. But I'm sure those evil Wuhan Scientists are brewing up the next batch of COVID-20.
Peter14
Pukey2
You confuse decades old documents with current peoples opinions and they are poles apart.
A vast majority of "people" in most nations do not go along with those documents even if their governments remain silent. The fact that everyone including governments oppose any attempt to force reunification of Taiwan with China should get through to everyone.
There is no right to force capitulation and any attempt to do so by force will be China starting a war and playing with fire.
KMT believe they are the rightful rulers of all of China that is different to believing they should be under CCP rule. If they believed that then they would have reunified peacefully decades ago.
bass4funk
What is he supposed to do? Xi was the one that started threatening to go into HK and establish its mainland rule on the Nation prematurely and a crackdown on dissidents and Biden did nothing as more and more soldiers pour in from Bejing.
Blacklabel
Trump couldnt do anything much, as he and XI are not "old friends" like XI and Biden are.
Yet, Biden has done nothing either and didnt even mention COVID, hmmm....letting an old friend "off the hook" for his responsibility for a global pandemic?
RegBilk
zichiToday 10:53 am JST
What did Trump do when? This year February, or March? Probably nothing--because he wasn't the president then,
Here is a little history to disprove your blanket statement:
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/29/trump-taking-action-to-eliminate-special-treatment-for-hong-kong.html
nishikat
How so?
nishikat
Yes, correct- Covid was not created in a lab
Pukey2
That's debatable. The fat guy was full of praises when he needed Xi to help out with the upcoming US elections. He was also glad that Xi could help out with his and Ivanka's trademarks in China and god-knows what business interest they have there. And wasn't Xi or someone else thrilled by the fat guy's grandchildren's knowledge of the Chinese language.
I even remember when the fat guy was full of praises when talking about Xi's handling of the pandemic (until Xi didn't want to help him win the 2020 elections).
venze
Biden reveals US Taiwan policy after call with Xi :
In short, Biden says, 'We'll protect Taiwan if it is invaded.'
Why use so many words instead, seemingly trying to be evasive, using the 'unilateral' 1979 Relation Act as an illusive shield.
What says Xi..?
bass4funk
Supply and give aid to our allies.
Trump is not President and now China ratcheted up the rhetoric and imposed.
Good question, what is Biden going to do? HE said, he will help defend China, Xi says Biden won't, so that means another lie from this admin. Afghanistan, Ukraine, and now Taiwan, no wonder our adversaries feel so emboldened.