Joe Biden and Xi Jinping’s first meeting as heads of state made clear that neither the U.S. nor China is prepared to negotiate their way to a lower risk of conflict in Taiwan.
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There is a long list of other points of tension, including China’s human-rights abuses in Xinjiang and elsewhere, American tariffs on Chinese goods, and export controls that will limit China’s access to advanced components in the semiconductor industry. None of those received top billing in this brief encounter, and each will continue to divide the two.
In that respect, summits like the Bali meeting matter more than the turgid statements released afterward. After nearly two years of duelling rhetoric from afar, it was a chance for both men to assess, in person, the other’s changes since the last time they met, in 2017—adjustments in tone, urgency, confidence, and vulnerability.
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