Outgoing President Joe Biden is scheduled to hold what is believed to be his last face-to-face meeting with genocidal Chinese dictator Xi Jinping in Peru on Saturday, as the two leaders meet at the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit. I plan to attend.
Chinese state news agency Xinhua reported It was revealed on Wednesday that Mr. Xi had already left Beijing for a long trip to Lima, accompanied by senior diplomats and Communist Party officials. Mr. Biden trip He will head to Peru on Thursday, where he plans to stay until Sunday, before heading to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for the annual Group of 20 summit. The White House also announced that Biden will stop in Manaus, a city deep in the Amazon rainforest, to “interact with local, indigenous, and other leaders working to preserve and protect this critical ecosystem.”
An anonymous Biden White House official told reporters Wednesday that Xi and Biden plan to spend time together to review “our efforts to responsibly manage competition over the past four years.” . The official said as Biden discusses the transition from his administration to the incoming team under President-elect Donald Trump, who is expected to take a less conciliatory stance toward the rogue communist regime. He categorically refused to answer questions about what he would do about it.
Trump will return for a second term in January. During his first term, he prioritized opposing China's nefarious actions around the world, including the Communist Party's colonization of Africa. support for human rights violators such as the regimes in Venezuela, Cuba, and Iran; and rampant intellectual property theft and espionage. President Trump signaled this week that his nomination of Se Johnson would restore a tough stance on China's global crimes. Marco Rubio (R-FL) to be Secretary of State – In 2020, the Chinese government supported human rights activists in Hong Kong and protested the ongoing genocide of Uyghurs and other indigenous communities in occupied East Turkestan. Rubio was sanctioned for speaking out.
But before Trump's return, Biden is scheduled to meet with Xi one last time to assess the relationship over the past four years. According to a Biden administration official, intention “I would like to take this opportunity to share our efforts over the past four years to responsibly manage competition, how our two countries have made progress in areas of common interest, and how we are striving to do so despite our deep differences and intense competition. Please rate it.”
The official said the Biden administration's communications with the Chinese and American militaries and “deep and meaningful discussions between the two countries' climate envoys” were a victory, leading to three far-reaching joint statements.
The official stressed that “there is no long list of achievements and accomplishments” attached to the Peru conference.
“I think this meeting will reflect on the progress that has been made, and make sure that these channels that we think are important to support stability are working, especially law enforcement and mills. “We look forward to continuing to work to confirm this in our future relationships,” the official added.
The Biden administration's China policy has had a devastating impact on America's overseas standing and bilateral relations with China, starting with an embarrassing meeting in Alaska in March 2021. The meeting, hosted by Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, featured Chinese diplomats yelling abuse at Americans about “Black Lives Matter” and accusing the U.S. government of human rights criminals. He gave them the opportunity to assert that they were, but there was little opposition. Biden officials have reportedly responded by acknowledging the genocide of Uyghurs, China's harvesting of living organs from political prisoners, or its violent and gruesome silence against people of faith and political dissidents. He says he didn't.
Biden has met privately with Xi twice, most recently in San Francisco a year ago. California will host the 2023 APEC summit, and the two leaders met on the sidelines of the event at the luxurious Filloli mansion in the Bay Area. After a four-hour private meeting, Mr. Biden persuaded Mr. Xi to send pandas to the San Diego Zoo.
The meeting also led to the resumption of military communications that China abruptly cut off after former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) visited Taiwan in August 2022.
“For two great powers like China and the United States, turning their backs on each other is not an option,” Xi said in the public part of the meeting. “It is unrealistic for one side to modify the other, and conflict and confrontation will have intolerable consequences for both sides.”
Mr. Xi issued a statement this month congratulating Mr. Trump on his election victory amid reports that Mr. Trump would adopt policies more unfavorable to the Communist Party than Mr. Biden.
In a congratulatory statement, President Xi said, “History teaches us that both countries gain from cooperation and lose from conflict.'' “China-US relations with stable, healthy and sustainable development serve the common interests of both countries and meet the expectations of the international community.”
Biden also promised to “do everything” in his meeting with President-elect Trump on Wednesday. [he] Can be confirmed [Trump is] He was housed in the Oval Office. playing cards lost Kamala Harris will be Biden's vice president in the November 5 presidential election.
