Commentary
Joe Biden met Xi Jinping in Bali, for the first time in Biden’s presidency. Some analysts say the meeting finally gave the president the opportunity to tell Xi, face-to-face, that the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) aggression against Taiwan and genocide against the Uyghurs, not to mention Tibet and the Falun Gong, are unacceptable.
Biden could have demanded a proper scientific investigation of the origins of COVID-19 in Wuhan—something Xi has forbidden to the international community.
Despite arguments against enabling and ennobling an intransigent totalitarian by granting Xi a public meeting with a U.S. president, analysts argue that face-to-face is the only reliable way to influence Xi with facts….