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To: Snowshoe who wrote (188785)	6/15/2022 6:50:09 AM
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To: Snowshoe who wrote (188785)	6/16/2022 7:53:27 PM
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apparently Team USA wishes to have a chat but given that earlier powwows result in nothing puzzled what is there to followup Biden says one thing, and his Team does another, so either there is a disconnect or somebody is being disingenuous believe Team China concluded to just wait Team Biden out, and if necessary, wait out Kamala or whomever including Pompeo etc etc bloomberg.com Biden-Xi Call Is Under Consideration Amid US-China Tensions Two leaders last spoke in March after invasion of Ukraine China-dominated world would be ‘darker and harsher’: Sullivan Jennifer Jacobs 17 June 2022, 04:46 GMT+8 U.S. president Joe Biden during a virtual meeting with China’s president Xi Jinping at the White House on Nov. 15, 2021. Photographer: Sarah Silbiger/UPI/Bloomberg US officials are working to arrange a possible call this summer between President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping, according to two people in Washington familiar with the plans, with tensions high between the world’s two biggest economies. The people didn’t have more details on what the US would want to be the focus of the call, but top Biden administration officials have emphasized the importance of putting “guard rails” on the relationship with Beijing to prevent disagreements from escalating into crisis. Ukraine, Taiwan and human rights are among the many sore points in US-China relations, and the two nations have been jockeying for greater influence in the Indo-Pacific region. “We want stability in the relationship -- that takes connecting,” US Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns said Thursday at an event hosted by the Brookings Institution when asked about the state of play between the countries. “Of course, our ultimate channel is the channel between our two presidents. So we’re conducting intensive diplomacy.” One person familiar with planning said a potential summer call could come as soon as July but any in-person meeting of the two leaders would wait until after China’s Communist Party congress late in the year. Xi -- who is seeking to secure a third term as China’s leader -- has also halted international travel since Covid-19 emerged more than two years ago. Asked about a potential meeting, Liu Pengyu, spokesman for the Chinese embassy in Washington, said in an email only that China and the US “have smooth communications channels.” Why China’s 2022 Party Congress Will Be a Landmark: QuickTake A spokeswoman for the White House National Security Council said Thursday that the Biden administration continues to maintain open lines of communication to manage competition with China but had no future calls or meetings to announce at this time. A call would follow a lengthy meeting between US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and top Chinese diplomat Yang Jiechi in Luxembourg this week. The US said that meeting “included candid, substantive, and productive discussion of a number of regional and global security issues, as well as key issues in US-China relations.” Speaking at an event in Washington on Thursday, Sullivan laid out what US officials see as the cost of China coming “to dominate the world.” “When you play out that world, it is a world that is darker and harsher for American families, and it’s one we need to stand against and in favor of a vision for the world that actually delivers a better life for people and that’s the core of what we’re trying to do every day through a turbulent and crisis-laden international landscape,” Sullivan said. Yellen Says Biden Team Is Looking to ‘Reconfigure’ China Tariffs China, meanwhile, has accused Washington of seeking to encircle it with a NATO-like system of alliances and of trying to recreate a Cold War version of the world. Beijing recently pressed Pacific Island nations to sign security and economic deals that surprised officials in Australia and the US. Beijing has also alarmed American officials repeatedly in recent months by asserting that the Taiwan Strait isn’t international waters. The latest in global politicsGet insight from reporters around the world in the Balance of Power newsletter. Sign up to this newsletter Yet with China focused on stamping out flare-ups of Covid-19 that have prompted sporadic lock-downs crimping economic growth, American officials increasingly see China losing diplomatic ground in Asia. Recent weeks have seen a flurry of US outreach to Asia, including by Biden, who traveled to South Korea and Japan last month, as well as Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and top State Department officials. Biden and Xi last spoke in a nearly two-hour-long video call on March 18, their first following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The US president warned his counterpart at the time of “consequences” should Beijing provide support for President Vladimir Putin’s war, according to the White House readout of the chat. High-Level US, China Talks Raise Prospects for Biden-Xi Call The longer summaries of the March call released by the China side portrayed a more wide-ranging discussion, including “the situation in Ukraine.” Xi told Biden that the invasion “is not something we want to see,” according to the Chinese summaries, and that “the events again show that countries should not come to the point of meeting on the battlefield.” — With assistance by Iain Marlow (Updates with Chinese embassy comment in sixth paragraph)