President Biden's relationship with President Xi dates back to when they were both vice presidents, giving Biden potential insight into the intentions and motivations of China's leader.
Saul Loeb / AFP - Getty Images fileWASHINGTON — A thin thread may be all that’s preventing tensions between the U.S. and China from devolving even further — the personal relationship that President Joe Biden has cultivated over the past dozen years with his Chinese counterpart, Biden administration officials and foreign policy analysts said.and effectively ended collective rule, he’s the lone figure in Beijing making decisions that will drive future relations, according to U.S.
Yet because of Xi's dominance in China's system, the only conduit that truly matters in staving off catastrophe is the one that exists between the two presidents, administration officials and analysts say. “I know we make foreign policy out to be this great, great skill that somehow is sort of like a secret code,” Biden said in a news conference in 2021 afterwith Russian President Vladimir Putin in Geneva. “All foreign policy is a logical extension of personal relationships. It’s the way human nature functions.”
Biden’s approach differs from that of his one-time running mate. Former President Barack Obama, more aloof and self-contained, never put as much stock in personal relationships as a means of governing. In his memoir, “A Promised Land,” he wrote about the nonexistent rapport he had with Xi’s predecessor, Hu Jintao.
“But Xi was smiling and he was affable,” he continued. “Clearly, Biden thought this was something he could do and maybe be effective at.”
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