Posted on 08/26/2024 11:41:02 PM PDT by nickcarraway
U.S. President Joe Biden's national security adviser Jake Sullivan is embarking on several days of talks with top Chinese officials in Beijing this week aimed at quieting tensions between the two superpowers ahead of the Nov. 5 U.S. election.
Sullivan, China's top diplomat Wang Yi and others meet for the Aug. 27-29 talks as the two countries are at odds over the Middle East and Ukraine, Chinese territorial claims from Taiwan to the South China Sea, and trade. Advertisement · Scroll to continue
Biden, who is in the final months of his presidency, has pushed direct diplomacy to influence Chinese President Xi Jinping and keep those tensions at bay; U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic candidate in November's election, would likely pursue a similar strategy. However many analysts aligned with Republican former President Donald Trump see that approach too soft given China's increasingly assertive foreign policy.
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After meeting secretly for the past year, at least.
“ TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — A new report has revealed a series of secret backchannel meetings held between top US and Chinese diplomats, with Taiwan as a central focus.
A Financial Times report on Monday (Aug. 26) disclosed several international, clandestine meetings between US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi (王毅). The “strategic channel” was established at a time when US-China relations had reached their lowest point, with “all the issues stacked against the backdrop of the most sensitive topic in US-China relations—Taiwan.””
“The tariff on Chinese products is now 100%, and will remain so until all fentanyl and precursor chemicals are no longer trans shipped to America. Have a nice f’ing day!”
They’re doing it for revenge because of all the opium of the United States sold them.
So you take chicom’s side.
Interesting.
Big pay days for Xiden and the people on the way out. James and Hunter should have been there.
That was the Brit’s, not us.
They’re doing it because it is effective at weakening our general population.
Good timing, Joe’s neutered and Harris is not a sure deal. What will the Chinese do? Eat the US negotiators for breakfast!
How about we put the rest of the world on auto pilot until we get our own house in order?
You could wipe China, Russia, and North Korea off the map and we still are not the land of the free; home of the brave.
The Constitution and Bill of Rights are all but just words on a piece of paper and we’ve got tyranny knocking on our door right now.
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