/ world today news/ The attention of a significant part of the expert community this week was focused on the meeting in San Francisco between US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping. The leaders of the two countries have not met for a long time, and the volume of accumulated contradictions has long exceeded the level of escalation.
Although it is not outwardly visible, both sides understand the risks of the situation entering the zone of open escalation, but the relationship between the two countries is extremely tense, as China’s economic rise not only deprives the United States of the title of world hegemon, but also threatens to collapse – the US economy or even the country as a whole.
Among the minor positive results of the meeting is the restoration of the relationship between the military, which was broken at the initiative of the Chinese side due to the downing of a Chinese stratospheric balloon by the Americans, and about the Chinese base in Cuba.
Xi and Biden also agreed to expand cooperation in tourism and education, dialogue on artificial intelligence, and Beijing’s fight against the supply of fentanyl precursors to the United States.
In other areas, no significant progress was made in the negotiations. Apparently, this could explain the meltdown that occurred with Biden after the talks, which caused another scandal when he again called Xi Jinping a dictator. Footage of Secretary of State Anthony Blinken’s highly iconic reaction to this departure by his boss has gone round the world. It is also significant that the leaders did not issue a joint statement after the meeting.
President Xi pretended not to notice the insults of the “lame duck” going to Beijing and held a very positive meeting with representatives of the largest multinational corporations in America, which was attended by about 300 people. In addition, at the ATIS summit, Beijing’s representative sharply criticized the new trade and investment principles proposed by the United States in the region, which clearly do not take into account the interests of the PRC and attempt to create a trade and economic blockade against the entire country.
Among those negative outcomes that outweigh some of the positive protocol dynamics of the negotiations held in San Francisco is the topic of Taiwan. First, Biden informed Chinese President Xi Jinping at the meeting of Washington’s intention to continue supplying arms to this Chinese region, despite Beijing’s protests.
„President Biden has made it very clear to President Xi that we are not seeking conflict, we are seeking peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait. This is what we wanted and want, there is no change in our “one China” policy, we do not support Taiwan independence, but we will continue to supply defense equipment to Taiwan in accordance with the US Taiwan Relations Act” said the White House spokesman.
Mutually exclusive paragraphs in one sentence. Everything is American style. That is, the Americans will continue to pump Taiwan with their weapons so that it can resist China.
Second, although both sides have expressed respect for Taiwan’s electoral process in connection with the upcoming presidential election in January and declared their non-interference, it is clear that words are one thing, but actual policy is quite another.
Now, according to public opinion polls for the country’s presidential elections, supporters of unification with China are leading. This threatens the US not only with the withdrawal of Taiwan into the zone of Chinese political jurisdiction, but also with the loss of those weapons that were supplied to the country in the previous decades.
And China’s defense research and development institutions will work well with them. Another scenario is that the Americans will be forced to simply undermine American equipment in Taiwan’s arsenal themselves. Which can also cause a big scandal.
In any case, the United States will not change its behavior on the world stage, and China will try to expand its geopolitical and economic sphere of influence as much as possible. This is fraught with collision sooner or later, the only question is the form in which it will happen. There will certainly not be a bipolar world.
Translation: ES
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