They say that fundamental positions on both sides have not changed. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Joe Biden last met on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Bali on Nov 14, 2022.between American President Joe Biden and China’s President Xi Jinping given that fundamental positions on both sides have not changed.
The ambassadors – Mr Laurent Bili of France, Mr Lui Tuck Yew of Singapore and Dr Kevin Rudd of Australia – all served previously in China. Mr Lui has been China has moved from the margins to the centre of global power, Mr Xi wants to change the status quo in “a direction more accommodating of Chinese interests and values”, and the US and its allies have chosen to resist that, he said.
“In other words, to relieve some of the internal economic tension, which China now faces because of declining growth because of difficulties in its own domestic economic model.”Washington has “embarked on a conscious campaign of economic derisking from China… whether it is critical minerals, or semiconductors, but it does wish to resume military to military dialogue with the PLA in order to reduce the risk of… war with China in the South China Sea or over the Taiwan Strait by accident.