Will China President Xi Join Biden Reelection Campaign?

Few, least of all China’s President Xi Jinping, will fail to acknowledge that beleaguered ’24 reelection hopeful Joe Biden desperately wants to come back away from summit conferences that begin between the 2 in San Francisco Wednesday with some negotiated concessions to brag about.

And why not?

After all, Xi should additionally calculate {that a} Biden reelection loss will probably carry again that orange-haired man who’s an entire lot tougher to cope with: the man who imposed truthful commerce sanctions on Chinese exports; imposed a China Initiative in opposition to excessive tech college and industrial spying; cancelled the Iran Nuclear Deal and sanctioned Tehran’s urgently wanted oil exports to China; and constructed up America’s navy following years of Obama-Biden administration neglect.

The summit between Biden and Xi and their negotiators follows a collection of U.S. coverage setbacks and White House snubs together with skipped presidential discussions and executive-level conferences that seem meant to showcase Chinese preeminent dominance on the world stage.

Xi declined to take an tried cellphone name from Biden for 2 weeks after he gave the order to shoot down a big Chinese spy balloon.

This belated motion in response to media strain additionally derailed a planned visit to Beijing by Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

As reported in The Wall Street Journal, by the point Blinken managed to get an audience with Xi months later, “he was made to look like a supplicant in Chinese state media, seated off to the side of a long table in the Great Hall of the People, rather than being placed next to Xi, as Blinken’s predecessor was.”

Adding private insult, U.S. officers reported that across the time of Blinken’s journey, Chinese hackers breached the unclassified e-mail accounts of his prime aides and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo.

Then, six weeks earlier than lastly agreeing to a summit with Biden, Chinese officers had floated an embarrassing Xi journey itinerary that might start with a banquet dinner with American enterprise leaders.

Beijing negotiators finally backed all the way down to White House objections and rescheduled the dinner till after middle stage discussions with President Biden.

After all, if they need Joe to win, they’re going to should make some seen symbolic concessions to make him look good to his remaining far left base at house.

Maybe throw in some local weather concern claims … like supply to promote us some discounted zero-emission solar panels and wind turbines as they construct the equal of a brand new coal-fired plant weekly and order more than 100 million barrels of oil each day every from Iran and Russia to help their wars in Israel and Ukraine, respectively.

They may even focus on China’s function in producing fentanyl that’s freely flowing throughout Biden’s open southern border killing a whole bunch of 1000’s of Americans.

In trade, probably anticipate Xi to hunt Biden administration reassurances on Taiwan that it’ll urge Democrat political leaders to again off on opposition to Beijing’s aim of unification till they’ll obtain that goal over one other four-year presidential time period.

A ’24 Democrat presidential and congressional win would additionally stave off a return to extra Trump restrictions on technology transfers and U.S. energy-driven financial competitiveness in opposition to a present deeply distressed Chinese economy.

Meanwhile, Beijing is working to create a substitute for undermine and exchange the U.S. greenback because the world’s reserve forex, a system which allows enforcement of sanctions in opposition to adversarial regimes.

China has already entered into agreements with BRICS nations — together with Brazil, Russia, India, and Iran — in addition to varied Middle Eastern nations — to settle commerce disputes in native currencies.

Through its Belt and Road Initiative, China has turn out to be the biggest supply of worldwide improvement finance with exports to accomplice nations which now exceed these to the U.S., EU, and Japan.

Beijing’s commerce relationships present political in addition to financial clout to undermine U.S. pursuits. As reported by Financial Times, between 2013 and 2020, Belt and Road nations voted with Chinese positions on the United Nations 75% of the time.

Regarding political leverage, as revealed in bank records now being routinely launched in reference to an ongoing congressional Biden impeachment investigation, Beijing allegedly has many scandal-based intimidating, manipulative buttons to push in opposition to seemingly compromising private and household enterprise transactions, with which it probably is conscious of, if not complicit.  

Included is a $40,000 check to President Biden that House investigators say was a part of a payoff to “the big guy” from a profitable cope with CEFC, a now-defunct Chinese Communist Party-linked vitality firm, when he was vice chairman.

A recorded November 2020 lecture by Di Dongsheng, a distinguished Chinese political science professor, boasted that Beijing had infiltrated “people at the top of America’s core inner circle,” with direct references to then-President-elect Joe Biden’s son Hunter and his business dealings in the Communist country.

Di mentioned that beneath President Donald Trump, “During the U.S.-China trade war, [Wall Street] tried to help and I know that my friends on the U.S. side told me that they tried to help, but they couldn’t do much,” including {that a} Biden presidency would profit China.

The viewers may be heard laughing within the background as Di defined, “Trump has been saying that Biden’s son has some sort of global foundation. Have you noticed that? Who helped [Hunter] build the foundations? Got it? There are a lot of deals inside all these.”

There must be little humor on this for these of us relying on Joe enjoying tic-tac-toe in opposition to Xi’s Chinese checkers.

Larry Bell is an endowed professor of area structure on the University of Houston the place he based the Sasakawa International Center for Space Architecture and the graduate area structure program. His newest of 12 books is “Architectures Beyond Boxes and Boundaries: My Life By Design” (2022). Read Larry Bell’s Reports — More Here.