US President Joe Biden plans to meet with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Thursday, July 28, according to the Bloomberg agency.
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Nancy Pelosi’s project, the president (speaker) of the House of Representatives, to go to Taiwan not only arouses the condemnation of Beijing. It annoys the White House and the Pentagon. “I believe the soldiers think it’s not a good idea now,” said President Joe Biden on July 20. The spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, Zhao Lijian, denounced such a visit, which “would seriously infringe the sovereignty and territorial integrity of China, would seriously affect the foundations of the Sino-American Alliance” .
M Me Pelosi, 82, was initially to go in April to the island but had to postpone his trip after being diagnosed positive at Sars-Cov-2. It would be the first visit of a chamber president since that of the Republican Newt Gingrich in 1997. The response of the parliamentarian to Joe Biden rather accentuated the problem: “I think what the president said, c It may be that the army was afraid that my plane is shot down. “The practice wants this kind of trip to take place aboard an American army plane.
unusual dissension
The White House, according to the New York Times, would prefer that M pelosi cancels his trip, fearing errors of interpretation and risks of incidents while Chinese President Xi Jinping is preparing the 20th Chinese Communist Party Congress (PCC). No one knows when the trip will take place when the Bloomberg agency announces that Mr. Biden should meet with President XI this Thursday, July 28, an interview that has been in the pipes for ten days.
This public dissension is unusual, American policy vis-à-vis China has been the subject, for many years, including under the mandate of Donald Trump, of a strong transpartisan consensus. He combined with an annex argument, but revealing American feverishness, on the possible infiltration of the Fed, the American federal reserve, by the Chinese. A report, published Monday, July 25, looks at thirteen people of interest identified in 2015 by the Fed itself, but it was written by employees of the Republican minority of the Senate and aroused a violent reaction from the President of the Central Bank, Jerome Powell: “We are deeply disturbed by what we think is unfair, unfounded and unsuccessful insinuations of the report concerning certain staff members”, writes Mr. Powell.
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