Time.news – This Monday took place in Indonesia the first meeting between President Joe Biden and Xi Jinping, on the sidelines of the G20 summit. The meeting lasted three hours. This is the first summit between the two leaders since the Democrat took office, but it is also the first meeting since Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan on August 8, which had broken with 25 years of politics. tacit acceptance of the concept of “One China“. A visit which had resulted in an increase in the military maneuvers of the People’s Republic in the South China Sea. A radical deterioration in relations between China and the United States was therefore added to the international context of war by proxy between the North Atlantic Alliance and Russia.
Despite Joe Biden’s confusing elocution, in form and substance, a clear statement during his press conference will have been: “Our One China policy has not changed”. “As the leader of our two nations, we share the responsibility to show that China and the United States can manage their differences, avoid turning competition into conflict, and find ways to work together.is ensemble on our global issues that require mutual cooperation“. After a series of statements, one more humiliating than the other, Biden seems to want to convert to the diplomacy of the soft power. In a more sibylline style, Xi Jinping had, a few hours earlier, declared: “Un statesman should think and know how to run his country. He should also think and know how to behave with other countries in this wide world“. The image of the democratic diplomat par excellence maintaining cordial relations as much as possible in contrast with the histrionicism of a Donald Trump, will not have stood the test of the facts. Rarely in the Western history of after the war, a leader will have so quickly turned the world upside down.
During his short press conference, Biden only accepted five questions from handpicked reporters. He began with a brief apology for the result of the midterm elections, yet still in the process of counting the midterms, which he already interprets as a victory. His speech also began with a message of domestic policy to install in the political landscape the new terrorist that would be the “denier“, or the one who questions the results of the elections. A concept that will certainly be taken up by all the banana republics governed by presidents for life. In the Democratic dictionary, contesting the results is part of the negationist palette.
Exactly, North Korea was mentioned. On this issue, where US allies South Korea and Japan expected firmness from Biden to remind China of its responsibility to its cumbersome ally on the other side of the Yalu and Tumen rivers, the American estimated that he “is difficult to estimate whether or not China has the ability to convince Kim Jong Un to reconsider his tests”. However, there must be someone in one of the American intelligence agencies informed of China’s ability to influence North Korea. Joe Biden must not have access to his reports. “I want to believe that China does not want North Korea to engage in an escalation of its means in the future“. It is true that Joe Biden had announced that this exchange would be done in a spirit of candor.
Given the few questions accepted during the conference, there will have been no question of Covid, human rights or concrete decisions on climate change, despite the simultaneous holding of COP27 in Egypt , nor Hunter Biden’s corruption cases in China.
The suddenly extremely conciliatory message with regard to China suggests that the time of chimeras and adventures of democratic governments is over. The message of the midterms has passed. From Barack Obama’s Arab Spring which financed ultra-terrorism and put millions of refugees on the road (hosted by the generosity of third countries and not the United States) to the other adventure consisting of playing with fire in Ukraine since 2013, leading the world of 2022 to the gates of a third world conflict: all this no longer passes with the American electorate. This time, these mistakes affect him, and not only the citizens of the nations under experimentation. The cost of Biden’s adventure in Ukraine translates into inflation, energy cost and a cascade of consequences whose effects are also being felt in the United States. An open front with China, Pelosi style, would be more than the Americans could bear with their woke gerontocracy.