Analysis | With US-China relations on a tightrope, Biden and Xi’s rendezvous is more important than ever – By Helen-Ann Smith (Sky News) / Nov 13, 2023
Both Biden and Xi are coming to this table with immense amounts of scepticism about the other’s intentions – any meaningful breakthrough is highly unlikely. What they both seek is a degree of “tactical stabilisation”.
It has been a year since President Xi and President Biden last met, and it’s hard to overstate just what a rollercoaster US-China relations have been on since then.
The fact this meeting is happening at all is the result of months of delicate planning.
But for all the “tough-line”, “hard-man” images that both men try to broadcast domestically, there is a mutual recognition of one key fact: it would cost more, both politically and economically, to allow relations to spiral.
