Joe Biden and Xi Jinping met at the beginning of the week for the first time since the US President took office. (archive image from 2013)
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Washington, Brussels, Berlin When US President Joe Biden was asked a few days ago about the chances of a successful meeting with China’s head of state Xi Jinping, he answered confidently: “My talks are always productive.” That will now become apparent: for the first time since Biden took office, Biden and Xi meet face-to-face on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Bali. An agreement is not to be expected, it is more about damage limitation.
Neither the US nor China wanted “an escalation, a global economic collapse or even war,” says Scott Kennedy, China expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Basically, Biden and Xi would have no choice but to talk to each other. Not meeting “would signal that things are so bad for us that everything can only go down”.
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