64 - Biden and Xi at Bali: The Limits of Engagement

The first in-person Biden-Xi summit was reasonably successful in that each president pledged to avoid war and seek common ground on issues such as climate change. But mutual understanding of their differences on national security is still lacking, jeopardizing the goodwill that emerged from Bali. China sees the US as interfering in its internal affairs, Taiwan first and foremost, in order to weaken communist party rule, whereas the US sees China as a strategic threat, intending to undermine US global predominance.