15 NOVEMBER 2023
John Kirby, US National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications, said on board Air Force One on Tuesday 14 November that China could play a role in helping the United States support Ukraine and advancing President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s vision for a just peace in Ukraine.
Source: John Kirby during a briefing; Voice of America
Details: Kirby said US President Joe Biden will talk about events in Ukraine during his meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
Quote: “Again, I don’t want to get ahead of the conversation that hasn’t happened yet. I do think that certainly they will want to talk about what’s going on in Ukraine, and the President will make it clear that we’re going to continue to support Ukraine against Russia’s aggression.
And certainly we would welcome opportunities, if China was willing to be helpful, in making sure that Israel can get the support that it needs to defend itself and that we can get humanitarian assistance to those in need.”
More details: The meeting between Joe Biden and Xi Jinping will be held on 15 November on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in San Francisco.
It will be Xi’s first visit to San Francisco since he was a young Communist Party leader. No big announcements are expected after the Biden-Xi meeting, but there is no shortage of challenging issues on the agenda.
Biden and Xi last met nearly a year ago on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Bali, Indonesia. During the nearly three-hour meeting, Biden expressly objected to China’s “coercive and increasingly aggressive actions” towards Taiwan and discussed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as well as other issues.
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John Kirby seems optimistic about china. I won’t be holding my breath, though. But, we’ll see…
I expect nothing from this meeting, so anything that does come would be a bonus.
If I was the USA I’d say to Jinping :
“Forget Taiwan. We will help you recover all the territories thieved off you by Russia.
First; phone putler and order him to call off the Ukraine genocide. Once that has been done, we will make your country rich; you’ll have so much business you won’t know what to do with it. Deal?”
That would be a good strategy, Scradge, and might even bring results.
But, we’re talking about Biden. Xi will give him a bowl of the most delicious ice cream, and Biden will melt in his hands.
Yes. He doesn’t have the capacity to engage effectively with a cunning dictator like that.
What we want to see is “rittle gleen men” moving into retake their stolen land. That would surely finish the rat dictator.
There is so much more that Biden could do … actually, should’ve done. I just can’t comprehend his rationale in anything he does. It starts with our borders, goes on to Afghanistan, certain other domestic actions, and, of course, this war. That many people are starting to have second thoughts about helping Ukraine is also his fault. He’s allowing the dark-souled kremlin defenders in our midst to take the stage, while to this day he’s failed to give the American people a concise battle plan and concrete reasons why this is more important than they realize. I could ramble on, but will makie it short to say that the man is completely overwhelmed by all of this. He should’ve never been elected president, not in such times. He might’ve been okay in peacetime and when everything is honkydory, but not now.