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New: The Biden-Xi meeting shows that U.S.-China relations will get worse, not better washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/… by me @PostOpinions

Despite Biden’s oft-repeated belief that “all foreign policy is personal,” there was no substantive progress made in the 3½-hour confab. That’s because the problems in the U.S.-China relationship are structural, not personal.

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Predictably, much of Washington praised this supposed thaw...

The problem with this thinking is that it ignores Beijing’s worsening behavior and the fact that Xi wasn’t willing to negotiate on any of the contentious issues.

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“When Xi Jinping says he wants a better U.S.-China relationship, what he really means is that he wants U.S. capitulation on China’s ‘core interests,’” said @Joshua_Eisenman, professor of politics at the @KeoughGlobalND.

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And because the United States has no intention of capitulating to Beijing’s demands that it abandon Taiwan and shut up about its human rights violations, U.S. policy will continue to bump up against Xi’s “red lines.”

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Xi’s professed desire for a reset in U.S.-China relations rings hollow because of his long record of deception. This is the same Xi who promised Obama in 2015 he would not militarize the South China Sea — and then did just that.

Fool me once …

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"Talking is great, but only if we are clear-eyed about the character and intentions of the dictator across the table."

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