Biden will push China to resume military ties with US, official says
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President Biden will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping in person for the first time in a year during a summit in San Francisco. It will be the second in-person meeting between the two leaders since Biden took office.

Biden will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping in person for the first time in a year on Wednesday during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in San Francisco.

“The president is determined to see the re-establishment of military-to-military ties because he believes it’s in the U.S. national security interest,” Sullivan said in an interview with CBS

Sullivan said on CNN’s “State of the Union” that Biden would seek to “advance the ball” on military ties during his meeting with Xi, but declined to provide further details.

The Biden-Xi meeting is expected to cover global issues from the Israel-Hamas war to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, North Korea’s ties with Russia, Taiwan, the Indo-Pacific, human rights, fentanyl production, artificial intelligence, as well as “fair” trade and economic relations, a senior U.S. official said.

  • Kaplya@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 year ago

    They cleaned up the homeless people on the streets just to make way for this meeting. Incredible.

    • PeeOnYou [he/him]@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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      1 year ago

      they actually went around and redid roads, curbs, and sidewalks in the general area. they repainted the lines on the roads. they (re?)painted the overpasses so they look nicer from underneath.

      they opened a bunch of outdoor stalls in Chinatown and they’re keeping them running late into the night, giving the appearance that it’s a bustling diverse area that people frequent long after most of the businesses are closed.

      From my experience on a normal evening most of Chinatown closes around 6pm and it becomes more of a ghost town than a bustling market.

      They’ve been running state news propaganda about it non-stop for the past couple weeks. They love to talk about cleaning up SF’s image from a dystopian nightmare into some sort of world renowned vibrant bastion of freedom, safety, and wealth.

      it’s disturbing

      • dustcommie [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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        1 year ago

        SF cleaning up their house before guests come over to stay… I would love to see chinese media(or documentary or something) going to SF and on one street seeing a bunch of luxery cars, fancy dressed people, expensive ass restaurants and literally next street over bunch of homeless struggling to survive and do some story… maybe even pull some “fake and dystopian city”(like America loves to do with China and DPRK) stuff before and after the “clean up”