President Biden on Sunday said that he’s looking to establish what the US and China’s “red lines” are in a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping that is scheduled for Monday.
“We just got to figure out where the red lines are and what we — what are the most important things to each of us going into the next two years,” President Biden told reporters in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, where he was attending the East Asia Summit.
China has made clear that one of its red lines is increasing US support for Taiwan, which Beijing believes goes beyond the one-China policy. But that hasn’t stopped the Biden administration from taking steps to forge stronger ties with Taipei.
The tensions over Taiwan are expected to be discussed in Monday’s meeting, as well as new US sanctions that target China’s chip industry, recent North Korean missile launches, and the war in Ukraine.
When the Biden-Xi meeting was first announced, a US official said that major differences likely wouldn’t be resolved. Instead, the meeting is expected to be about managing tensions and better understanding each other’s positions.
The meeting will be the first time that the two leaders hold in-person talks since President Biden came into office in January 2021. It comes as US-China relations are at their lowest point in decades, and the Biden administration has repeatedly named China as the biggest “threat” facing the US this century.
Biden is set to meet with Xi on the Indonesian island of Bali ahead of the summit of G20 leaders. At the East Asia summit in Cambodia on Sunday, Biden held a series of meetings with other world leaders, including South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio, and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
On Saturday, Biden met with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen and called out China without mentioning Beijing by name. He said the US will work with Southeast Asian countries to defend against “significant threats” to the so-called “rules-based order,” which the US often accuses China of challenging.
The US has ignored the agreed red lines with China, and it knows that. It is the same as reneging on the Iran Deal; cheating and they know it.
So what is there to talk about? Does Biden imagine he can dictate new American red lines to China?
This is the path to war. Again. Another one.
We are nothing if not highly repetitive…
Zelensky has threatened to attack Iran directly for Iran supplying Russia with drones. Translation: the U.S. and Israel is threatening to attack Iran, now over drones.
Israel has been biting at this bit for a very long time.
Biden thinks he rules the world. China includes Taiwan, and Biden’s lies have infuriated China. Solve your own problems, senile Joe, and let China help the world by COOPERATION, not conflict.
Yes, as if he didn’t know where the red lines are. Trouble is, Xi seems very much Chiang Kai-shek, should already have acted.
“Cash My Check”, ahem…..
Good one Donna! 😁
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Agreed. Biden has no more right to dictate policy in the South and East China Seas than China would have to dictate policy in the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico.
I thought our relationship with China was reasonably good before Trump came along. Biden seems hell-bent on turning the relationship we had into a confrontation that is harming global peace as well as our own economy.
Since the end of the Cold War, US regimes have had to seek out Enemies of the Week to keep the “defense” factories humming. Trump and Biden both seemed to think it preferable to settle on a more long-term Enemy of the Generation instead, with China as the obvious candidate.
all during the campaigns for POTUS election 2020 the republicans called biden “China Joe” because they were pretending that biden was in china’s pocket.
He also committed to return to the JCPOA. Among things he lied about.
Red lines only work if vital interests don’t force them to be crossed, the clash of interests that result in war, world war in the case of the US and China.
https://patternofhistory.wordpress.com/
“Rules based order” sounds so archaic….
Right out of the __________ Intervention/Regime Change playbook.
Spot on OB!
Coming out of Joe’s mouth, it is a canned talk that emits from his tape recorder mind.
vlp1730:
Do you write verse?…
Sounds like a King’s edicts
Biden’s looking for red lines? The man couldn’t find his arse in the dark.
He needs strobe lights and a target to hit the toilet.
LMAO
China’s red line is pretty clear – just don’t support Taiwan independence and everyone on both sides of the strait live in peace and they keep their defacto autonomy. But nope, Biden is the worst American president when it comes to trampling that red line and bringing war ever closer over Taiwan.
Taiwan is independent and its people seem to intend for it to remain independent.
So pretty much everything tramples the Beijing regime’s silly temper-tantrum “red line” of demanding that everyone else pretend Taiwan isn’t independent.
Perhaps Xi should grow the f*ck up.
You mean like Washington has with Cuba?
Taiwan hasn’t been independent since the invasion by the Kuomintang with the Chinese treasury, US money and arms. Beijing would be happy with an autonomous Formosa, if Washington would just get the f out.
It doesn’t matter whether Beijing is “happy” with an autonomous Taiwan or not.
Taiwan is independent.
Beijing doesn’t have to like it.
That’s how it is whether Beijing likes it or not.
China dosen`t want Taiwan becoming another platform for US Hegenomy before you know it there would US Military bases on the Island of Taiwan , like Japan / Australia ect ect
We ought to mention the ‘scales of power’ and their tipping points, we are in the zone…
The US is initiating arms manufacturing there.
The point is Beijing wasn’t the one causing the friction that threatens their independence.
^exactly
Knapp has spoken. All bow 😉 You’ve got the rhetoric of the world’s Hegemon down pat.
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That comment actually gave me some chills OB…
I’m just as opposed to the US regime throwing its weight around at other people’s expense as I am to the PRC regime doing so.
You just happen to prefer one would-be hegemon’s Kool-Aid to the other’s, that’s all.
The US agreed to ONE CHINA. Now they want chips. They never honor agreements. Bolton said the US doesn’t ever have to follow agreements, remember?
Reminds me of Ukraine and the stuff that Kiev doesn’t have to like.
Absolutely.
No matter how hard Zelenskyy stomps his feet and demands that everyone pretend Crimea is part of Ukraine, it’s Russian and it’s going to stay Russian.
Or perhaps the Americans will stop war mongering FFS. 33 countries invaded since they lost the Korean War in 1953 and still to win one .
The Korean “police action” has not ended. There has been a lull, with the line of demarcation at the 38th Parallel. Thee has not been an armistice signed by the parties.
Maybe you should try a dose of peaceful coexistence as opposed to perpetual war. I assume from some of what you’ve written that you are a US citizen. If so, isn’t it time to take on full responsibility and acknowledge that our country is one of the primary causes of a destabilized world?
In addition, your comments here make me wonder why you even want to moderate this site, which is populated largely by a group that advocates peaceful coexistence and diplomacy – the very antithesis of US policy all over the globe.
Nicely stated OB, nicely stated.
Yes, people who advocate peaceful coexistence and diplomacy — like me.
Formosa has always been China.
It has, occasionally and briefly, been “China.” But not since 1895.
Strange that the whole wide world recognized Taipei as China when they occupied the Permanent Seat of the Security Council for CHINA from 1949 to 1971. I get it now – when they represented all of China at the UN THEN they were China.
No, they weren’t China. They were pretending to be China, and countries were going along with it to kowtow to the US.
Now countries are going along with the flip side of the same stupidity to kowtow to the PRC.
History is full of regimes demanding that people pretend fairy tales are true. That doesn’t make fairy tales true.
They were the sole, legitimate government of China according to the world with the exception of a few countries like Russia and North Korea. They may not have been China but they were recognized as such, and that’s what counted.
“Taiwan is independent and its people seem to intend for it to remain independent.”
By getting in bed with the US?
Apparently they regard getting in bed with the US as less risky to their independence than just hoping the PRC doesn’t wake up feeling like war some morning.
By getting in bed with the US they have no impendence.
Taiwan has been our pawn since Nixon/Kissinger. We already sold them down the river once in 1979
No, they think they will get richer by selling chips direct.
They or Her.
Yanukovych’s solution, 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒆𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒑𝒐𝒑𝒖𝒍𝒂𝒓 𝒔𝒖𝒑𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕, for Ukraine was regional autonomy.
Regional autonomy has worked for Taiwan as well.
Yanukovych was 0verthrown because he signed a much better trade agreement with Russia than the one offered by the EU. For Taiwan, the US seems to want to control their semi-conductor exports. Taiwan would do much better for itself if its leaders sell to both countries because the PRC is fully capable of developing its own semi-conductor industry, and the US will likely lose interest as soon as the new facility in Arizona is built.
“rules based order”. Is that all that is loaded on Biden’s tape recorder mind? It is meaningless. If he is so “rules based order”, we would not be stirring up trouble in Africa, or other countries, along with this ridiculous and dangerous war with Russia.
“Rules based order” means whatever bullshit the US comes up with at the time.