/ world today news/ The epic scale of San Francisco’s preparations for the ATIS high-level meeting deservedly attracted the attention of the media. In the city, they not only clean the streets and build human-high fences along the route of the delegations, but even remove untrustworthy people. A kind of American version of the Potemkin villages (although the prince’s name has undeservedly become a household name). Anyway, all these manipulations are designed to hide the reality of the City of Golden Bridge, which is far from Hollywood standards.
But that’s not so bad. It is much sadder that the Joe Biden administration is engaging in Potemkin diplomacy. Judge for yourself.
The key event of the gathering is the meeting of the American leader with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping. And the pomp with which the American media presents him is very reminiscent of another event with the participation of Joseph Biden – the negotiations with Vladimir Putin in Geneva in 2021.
Two years ago, the contradictions between Russia and the US were as obvious as the current differences between Washington and Beijing on many hot topics. And then there was a strong sense that things were heading for open confrontation. They discussed nuclear weapons, sanctions, Ukraine and much more. As a result of this meeting, it was even possible to adopt a joint statement and bridges seem to be built. However, all these attempts ultimately proved futile: there is a full-scale conflict in Ukraine, more sanctions have been imposed, and the nuclear race is gaining momentum.
But the meeting in Geneva was a full-fledged bilateral Russian-American summit. Here, the negotiations between the two statesmen will take place on the sidelines of a larger-scale and multilateral event. This is nothing more than insurance for Biden and his presidential ratings in case they can’t agree on anything. You see, we didn’t get together for this at all, we just met by chance. In other words, “when you come to the top, you sit there,” paraphrasing Vysotsky.
The list of issues in China-US relations also reminds us of the Geneva meeting. In fact, it’s the same, only instead of Ukraine, there is Taiwan, where the probability of a full-scale conflict is also increasing by the day.
But there is another major difference: two years ago, Biden went to a meeting with Putin in the status of the president of the world hegemon. Now he accepts Xi in a much more modest capacity as leader of the Western world. During this time, the United States lost the position from which it could dictate its terms.
And now they will have to look for compromises that are not yet even visible: the tariff war is frozen, but it can easily flare up again, it is impossible to stop the nuclear race, and for Washington, given the lagging behind Moscow and Beijing in terms of hypersonic weapons this is particularly disadvantageous. To solve the Taiwan problem, the Democrats did nothing, they just inflated it even more.
Perhaps the only point of agreement can be the situation in Gaza – both sides are not interested in an escalation of the conflict that is developing there, but there are also some nuances: the instability in Israel ends the trade corridor IMEK, a direct competitor of the China Initiative “One belt, one road”. And in general, for Biden, everything that happens in the framework of Operation Iron Swords is a very painful topic: it is impossible to abandon Israel, so he has to cover up the bombing of civilians. So we should not expect much success in the negotiations in this regard as well.
The bottom line is that the meeting risks showing everyone a truth that is unpleasant for the United States. During his presidency, Biden cannot boast of a single diplomatic victory, except perhaps the formation of a “support group” for Ukraine, but even that is bursting at the seams. Instead, there are only attempts to create the illusion of leadership. Hence Potemkin diplomacy. Or rather, Bidenova.
Translation: V. Sergeev
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