When President Joe Biden meets for the final time Saturday with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, his aides say the moment will be ripe for reflection on a relationship that began more than a decade ago, over a long meal in Chengdu.
It was an episode that left deep impressions on the president, at least judging by how often he recounts it. A search of Biden’s speeches over the past four years finds 61 instances of him describing a moment at the end of the evening when, asked by Xi to define America, he came up with a single word: Possibilities. In the end, looking backward may be more productive for Biden and Xi than trying to predict what’s next for their two nations.
“Transitions are uniquely consequential moments in geopolitics. They’re a time when competitors and adversaries can see possible opportunity,” Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan said as the president was headed to Peru. “And so, part of what President Biden will communicate is that we need to maintain stability, clarity, predictability through this transition between the United States and China.
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