Fwd from @ 📝Diplomatic theater📝 They ate, they joked, but where are the results? The state visit of the Chinese leader to the USA will wrap up soon. But aside from amusing moments, such as Donald Trump's reaction to a bomber flyover, jokes about Joe Biden and a couple of incidents with Chinese journalists who "fought" over seats with their colleagues, nothing else particularly memorable happened. The meeting of Trump and Xi Jinping at the White House proceeded without incident, but has not yet produced any major deal. The US President called the talks "excellent," and at the state dinner declared that the leaders "have never gotten along so well." The most concrete result emerged before the leaders met — an extension of the trade truce. This gives negotiators time to resolve major disagreements, for example, over access to Chinese rare earths and purchases of goods from the USA. There is also no word of a big deal that was supposedly offered in Beijing at the last moment. 🖍Xi used the meeting to raise the Taiwan issue. According to China's account of the closed talks, he asked Washington to "oppose independence" of the island and handle the matter carefully. The Americans, for their part, did not speak publicly about Taiwan, although they have yet to release the text of their remarks from the closed dialogue. 🚩On artificial intelligence, the sides also agreed only to continue the conversation for now. Xi proposed preventing misuse of technology, and Trump, according to the Chinese Foreign Ministry statement, supported dialogue. However, neither a working mechanism for notifying of dangerous incidents in the AI sphere nor other measures have been announced by the sides. ❗️By the way, there were no Chinese businessmen at the dinner, but guests included representatives of major US companies. So until documents are released from the American side, the visit turns out to be sparse on specifics. But at the same time, the leaders demonstrated a working channel of negotiations that helps keep relations stable — this can be called the main result of the visit. #China #USA 🏮@rybar_pacific — your ticket to Pacific confusion 💸 Support us Original msg
- 8
- 1
- 1