[Re]Couple [4] Superpowers and Panda Diplomacy
Xi’s performance in San Francisco appeared to be directed primarily at the global audience, for whom he sought to demonstrate Beijing’s readiness to be reasonable & cooperative in dealing with DC
Friday Beijing 2.41pm / Thursday San Francisco 11.41pm
[Re]Couple superpower after Biden - Xi Jinping. China Commerce Minister Wang Wentao meets counterpart US Gina Marie Raimondo. China and the US agree to discuss trade working group meeting Q12024 or 2-2.5 months from now. Wang Wentao expressed concern about US Chip Curbs policy, investment restriction, and ‘SECTION 301’ tariff on China.
Flashback to July or just 11 days after Blinken meet Xi Jinping in China: "The Biden administration is discussing lifting sanctions on a Chinese police forensics institute suspected of participating in human-rights abuses, people familiar with the matter said."
Xi Jinping draws ‘Standing Ovation’ from U.S. Business Leaders. U.S. corporate titans applaud Chinese leader, though some are disappointed by lack of plans to boost business ties." Xi says “..No matter how the global landscape evolves, the historical trend of peaceful coexistence between China and the United States will not change. The ultimate wish of our two peoples for exchanges and cooperation will not change.”
Xi Jinping’s suggestion that China would send new pandas to the U.S. was a minor gesture in an otherwise bitter rivalry but symbolic of attempts by both governments to find areas to cooperate. Suddenly, talk of pandas is resurfacing as a token of potential cooperation, with warm and fuzzy remarks by Xi about them as “envoys of friendship,” reviving expectations Beijing would dispatch new sets of the popular bamboo-munching animals to the U.S.
“I was told that many American people, especially children, were really reluctant to say goodbye to the pandas, and went to the zoo to see them off,” Xi said on Wednesday night in San Francisco.
Beijing also signaled it didn’t want to draw too much attention to Biden’s comment, leaving any reference to it out of the ministry’s official transcript of the briefing. “This is not all kumbaya,” Biden said. The White House said whether pandas return to the U.S. is Xi’s decision. “Should a decision be made by [China] to restore some of the pandas to the United States, we would obviously welcome them back,” said National Security Council spokesman John Kirby.
From Germany side, Mercedes-Benz CEO says “For us, de-risking doesn’t mean reducing our presence in China but increasing it.”
After meet Biden, President Xi Jinping met with Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. The two leaders reiterated commitment to the principles and consensus in the four political documents between China and Japan. They reaffirmed the agreement to promote a strategic relationship of mutual benefit in an all-round way. Both sides are committed to building a constructive and stable China-Japan relationship that meets the needs of the new era.
Xi Jinping draws ‘Standing Ovation’ from U.S. Business Leaders. U.S. corporate titans applaud Chinese leader
Ya think? Most of them have all their manufacturing plants in China or elsewhere in south east Asia but mainly China. Americans can look on the bottom of most of their house hold goods and it will be stamped “ made in China.”
Add to that, China has bought up half the most valuable real estate in California, especially the Bay Area to the point that Californians can’t afford to live here. That’s the fault of the state of California.
Florida sells its property off to wealthy Chinese also but no state so much as California.
A simple, small, three bedroom two bath home here, nothing fancy, list for over one million. They buy them and rent them out for very high sums and there is no rent control in this state so they raise the rent each year by huge amounts, more than any cost of living wage can cover. You just get poorer and poorer living here.