President Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping are expected to hold a call on Thursday amid angry warnings from Beijing that the bilateral relationship cannot make progress unless the White House stops Nancy Pelosi from visiting Taiwan.
militarily — statements that the White House walked back. The growing frictions have added to differences over trade, technology, security and the war in Ukraine.
At the end of the Trump administration, China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi declared that Beijing viewed the relationship as being at its worst point since the establishment of diplomatic relations on Jan. 1, 1979. Four earlier phone calls between Xi and Biden, as well as numerous lengthy meetings between top diplomats, have not brought about a significant detente.
The call also comes as Xi is preparing for a twice-per-decade political meeting, the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, where he is expected to take on a The administration has become increasingly concerned that such a trip at this time — ahead of the major party conclave in the fall — could provoke China to respond in a way that sparks a crisis across the Taiwan Strait. Defense, military and intelligence officials have laid out the risks, administration officials said. Gen. Mark A. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, personally briefed Pelosi.“If Pelosi visits Taiwan then she is pushing the envelope.
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