The meeting between the presidents of the United States and China is the first after a year of increasing tension between the two countries. Joe Biden says the goal of the summit is to “get back to normal.”
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It was the handshake that the world was waiting for: Joe Biden and Xi Jinping are already together in San Francisco, California, where this Wednesday they will meet within the framework of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit.
In addition to economic and trade concerns, the meeting between the presidents of the United States and China, the first since the G20 summit in Bali, Indonesia, a year ago, will address a series of diplomatic issues, with an emphasis on wars in Ukraine. and Gaza and the Taiwan question.
The meeting is seen as an important opportunity to restore some normality to bilateral relations. following an increase in tensions between the two countries over the last year. On Tuesday, the American Head of State outlined what, for him, would constitute a successful conversation:
Return to normal. (…) Being able to write to each other, being able to pick up the phone and talk to each other if there is a crisis, ensuring that our armed forces continue to maintain contact,” he said, quoted by CNN International.
The last point takes on special importance, after Beijing’s military forces have cut off communications with their North American counterpart. A fact that Biden says he wants to remedy. “We are not trying to disassociate ourselves from China. “What we are trying to do is change the relationship to a better stage,” he highlighted to the journalists present at the White House.
The meeting is the first since the escalation of tension recorded at the beginning of the year, when Washington accused Beijing of having sent a spy balloon into US airspace. Since then, the two countries have attempted a diplomatic rapprochement, with several meetings, such as the trip to Beijing of the American Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, and the trip of the Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs, Wang Yi, to Washington.
USA. Chinese spy balloon will have transmitted information in real time to Beijing
Source: Observadora
