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| US President Joe Biden (left) and Chinese President Xi Jinping. © News1 Designer Choi Soo-ah |
The prospect of a face-to-face summit between Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Joe Biden was difficult for the time being, as the high-level US-China talks held in Alaska, the United States, exchanged only rough battles.
On the 21st (local time), the Hong Kong South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported that China’s open arguments with the United States at the highest-level talks imply that the summit is not being pushed forward strongly.
At the same time, he predicted that the possibility of a summit meeting between the United States and China would be slim because the two countries need time to look back on the previous Alaska talks.
Earlier, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported that a meeting between the two leaders was possible when the two countries decided to form a working group on climate change at the Alaska talks, but they denied this.
A source familiar with the Alaska talks said, “Since President Xi is very busy dealing with domestic issues, he has no plans to visit the United States.”
“There is little trust between China and the United States at this time,” said Zhi Qing-guo, a professor at the Faculty of International Relations at Peking University. “However, climate change is an area where we can cooperate because both leaders are very interested.”
He predicted that a discussion could not be as authentic and complete as face-to-face talks, but video talks could be possible.
People’s University Professor In-Hung Shi, who serves as an advisor to the State Council of China, also ruled out the possibility of meeting President Xi and President Biden.
“The US Secretary of State Tony Blincoln said that the talks held in Alaska are only one-off, and that the follow-up talks will take place only after China has made some concessions on the issues of Hong Kong, Taiwan and Xinjiang.” “There will be no concessions on matters related to this,” he said.
The U.S. also raised the issue of the detention of two Canadians to China due to espionage negotiations, but predicted that the confrontation between the two countries would continue without any concessions from the Chinese side.