They don’t want to allow a nuclear war: what Biden and Xi will talk about during the meeting

What to expect from the conversation between Biden and Xi / Alex Brandon/AP

The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit will take place in San Francisco in two weeks. On the sidelines of the summit, a meeting between the presidents of the United States and China, Joe Biden and Xi Jinping, is scheduled to take place.

Such a meeting is a powerful signal of the readiness of cooperation between the two countries, and it can have truly positive consequences. US politician Yuri Rashkin told Channel 24 in more detail about what to expect from this meeting.

What important topics can Biden and Xi touch on?

There are really a lot of hopes for the meeting between Xi Jinping and Joe Biden. Especially after the visit of the head of the Chinese Foreign Ministry to Washington and statements by Xi about his readiness to cooperate with the United States.

The administration (Biden – Channel 24) believes that it is necessary to maintain relations and communication with China, they say, this lowers the temperature, and the situation in the world is calmer. So far it is not Biden in Beijing, but Xi Jinping in San Francisco. It is important, first of all, to prevent war,” Yuri Rashkin emphasized.

For the United States, war with China is very costly. This is close to the amounts that the United States allocates for military assistance to Ukraine.

“The news says that we are getting closer to the third world war. But if you look at politicians, in particular Biden, he is trying to pull us away from the hot phase of this third world war. And they talk about nuclear war . I don’t know who will win the elections in States after a nuclear war,” Rashkin said.

The best development during this meeting would be some kind of agreement between the United States and China about economic rather than military competition . Of course, a very good, albeit not very realistic, scenario would be to convince Xi Jinping not to work with Russia.

Yuri Rashkin on the possible results of the conversation between Xi and Biden: watch the video

Meeting between Biden and Xi: what is known

• At the end of October, Reuters reported that Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and American officials had long discussed the possibility of a meeting between Xi Jinping and Joe Biden. This happened against the backdrop of Wang Ye’s first visit to Washington in 5 years. By the way, the Chinese minister then met with the US President.
• As journalists found out, it was possible to agree on a meeting of the leaders on the sidelines of the APEC summit, which will be held from October 11 to 17 in San Francisco.
• It is interesting to note that on the eve of Wang Yi's visit to Washington, Xi Jinping sent a letter to the National Committee on US-China Relations, whose headquarters are in New York. The Chinese leader noted that he is ready to cooperate with the United States. He called for the establishment of more stable bilateral ties based on the principle of peaceful coexistence.