WASHINGTON – After the summit with Putin, Biden now wants to speak with Chinese President Xi Jinping “to take stock of the situation” because “nothing replaces dialogue at the level of leaders”. This is what Jake Sullivan announced when speaking to reporters. The US national security adviser has hinted that a face-to-face would be possible at the G20 summit, scheduled for October in Italy.
“We don’t have any particular plans now but I notice that the two presidents will perhaps be at the G20,” Sullivan said, adding, however, that the dialogue could also take the form of a “phone call”.
“We are determined to have President Biden discuss with President Xi in the coming months, it’s just a matter of knowing when and how,” assured the National Security Advisor, who then drew a positive balance from the first trip. of the president abroad, between the G7, NATO, the EU and meeting with Putin. “Biden wore the dress of the leader of the free world with confidence and talent on this journey,” he noted, pointing out that this is not a “hyperbole.”
A suit, Sullivan continued, that his predecessor Donald Trump had “abandoned” with his unilateralist and sovereign policy. According to the National Security Advisor, the success of this tour “lays the groundwork for demonstrating that democracies can benefit their citizens and those of the whole world.” The trip, he added, allowed a “convergence” between “the world‘s democracies towards China”, strengthening the alliances mistreated by Trump.