To: Pogeu Mahone who wrote (178006 ) 9/9/2021 11:47:14 PM From: TobagoJack Read Replies (1) | Respond to Welcome back PG.side note landlords have still not been payed by gov't programs in Mass phuck it, let's not talk any more 'scmp.com Breaking | US-China relations: Biden and Xi in Friday phone call According to the White House, the two leaders had a ‘broad, strategic discussion’ The US president made clear the conversation was part of Washington’s efforts to ‘responsibly manage’ their competition US President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping spoke by phone on Friday, having “a broad, strategic discussion” intended to manage the increasing rivalry between Beijing and Washington, according to a White House readout. The White House said Biden had made clear the discussion was “part of the United States’ ongoing effort to responsibly manage the competition” between the two countries. “President Biden underscored the United States’ enduring interest in peace, stability, and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific and the world and the two leaders discussed the responsibility of both nations to ensure competition does not veer into conflict.” A senior White House official told reporters that Biden called for the leaders to ensure that “competition” between the two powers did not become “conflict”. scmp.com ‘You don’t even understand the basics’: Chinese ex-diplomat lashes out at EU envoy Nicolas Chapuis draws sharp criticism after accusing China of ‘changing its diplomacy’ and questioning its attacks on Lithuania’s Taiwan deal Former foreign ministry official warns that ambassador’s ‘biases’ could hurt hopes of improved bilateral relations Chapuis, an experienced sinologist and translator, is a veteran French diplomat who served in both of France’s offices in Beijing and Shanghai. He has been EU’s ambassador to China since 2018. Chapuis said he respects Wu’s work but warned China of how its actions are affecting its image among Europeans. “We may be mistaken, but we think in Europe today, everybody – government, public opinion, academics – are today convinced that China is changing, and you are telling us today that it is not the case. That is a perception issue that we need to tackle …. you are all entitled to your views but please do understand that in Europe people are convinced that China is changing its diplomacy,” Chapuis said. The intense give and take that escalated to a personal level highlighted the ongoing conflicts between Beijing and Brussels, which have led experts and officials on both sides to harbour few hopes of any icebreakers in the short term. Each side has blamed the other for relations going downhill and say their requests have fallen on deaf ears. Chapuis said he saw evidence of this change when China’s top diplomat, Yang Jiechi, clashed with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken at a high-level meeting in Alaska in March. Gloves off at top-level US-China summit in Alaska with on-camera sparring “I am very sorry to see that China does not give any credit to the EU in bringing the US back to the path of engagement. Why? Because China has decided to not reset the relationship with the US. “The Anchorage meeting in March 2021 is for me, a very significant signal and very disappointing … The government rejected the return to engagement,” he said. “So what does China want? What is the objective, the purpose of China today in foreign relations? It’s clearly not the same purpose as 10 years ago, it is different. We are sometimes at a loss to understand exactly what China wants.”
