Biden wants to set guardrails in Xi talks: White House, According to US officials, President Joe Biden wants the two leaders to construct “guardrails” to prevent violence between the superpowers during their meeting on Monday in Indonesia. “We are engaged in conflict. In order to prevent competition from degenerating into conflict, President Biden wants to ensure that it is restrained, that we put up barriers, that we establish clear rules of the road, and all of the above “a top officials in the White House said.
Biden wants to set guardrails in Xi talks: White House
Biden has the support of “allies and partners,” according to the official, who was one of two briefing reporters prior to the meeting in Bali on the sidelines of the G20 summit. The official stated that there was “widespread support for our determination to construct the foundation under the connection to grow communications responsibly.” The summary of US objectives for the talks with Xi shows both the difficulty in stabilizing the US-China relationship and the low hopes.
Biden and Xi have spoken on the phone and in person five times since Biden took office at the beginning of 2021, but Monday’s meeting will mark the first time since Biden served as Barack Obama’s vice president. Xi last had a meeting with a US president in 2019, Donald Trump.
– ‘Empower key officials’ –
The two most important and interdependent economies in the world are also embroiled in complicated trade conflicts. According to White House officials, the sole goal of the talks on Monday is to formally resume the small-scale cooperation and communication that have mostly ceased due to Beijing’s ire over Taiwan. Another top official stated, “Our belief is that channels of communication should be open.”
“I anticipate that President Biden will make that point quite clear to President Xi today: not only to establish channels but to give important officials on both sides the authority to really follow up on some of the meat of what the presidents are going to discuss.” An official sounded upbeat when he claimed that the preparation for the conference had already “made room in the Chinese system” for more extensive discussion. The official stated, “That’s all been occurring very quietly.
With regard to climate change mitigation, Biden believes he and Xi can discover “transnational” subjects for high-level cooperation. The official stated that these are areas where “the world expects” the two nations to collaborate and where “we, as a responsible nation, absolutely believe we should be.”
However, a thaw on “thornier issues” would not always result from improved cooperation there. On those more difficult subjects, the intention is to “find methods to communicate,” “because the only thing worse than… having heated conversations is not having any dialogues at all.”
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