Chinese President Xi Jinping has met with more than 25 heads of state — including U.S. President Joe Biden — since Oct. 31, according to government releases.
The week following, the countries' military leaders met for the first time since U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's controversial Taiwan visit in August.
"For China, the wording carries some token symbolism, that is equality," said Shen Yamei, deputy director and associate research fellow at state-backed think tank China Institute of International Studies' department for American studies. "We need to handle our relations on equal footing, by respecting each other and win-win cooperation, rather than, as the U.S. said, the U.S. is dealing with others from a position of strength. That's not equal.
"The important thing is we [keep] in mind the responsibility of a major country to the world by cooperating with each other," she said.The Biden administration has called China a competitor, while strengthening U.S. ties with other countries, especially in the Indo-Pacific. "Right now the political environment in China is different," Cunningham said. Xi "is trying to get relationships back on the right track so that the conditions are positive for China."
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