What we saw at the G-20 summit in Bali was a diminished Biden and a lean and hungry Xi.
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U.S. President Joe Biden meets with Chinese president Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the G20 leaders’ summit in Bali, Indonesia, November 14, 2022.
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At the G-20 summit in Bali, we’ve seen the first face-to-face meeting between the weakest American president since Jimmy Carter, and the toughest and most powerful Chinese leader since Mao. Of course, it was a debacle, with Biden trying to pretend that President Xi Jinping doesn’t hold the trump cards right now in the U.S.–China confrontation. But it didn’t have to be this way.
Biden led us here, step by disastrous step.
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Arthur Herman is a senior research fellow at the Civitas Institute at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of Freedom’s Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II.
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At the G-20 summit in Bali, we’ve seen the first face-to-face meeting between the weakest American president since Jimmy Carter, and the toughest and most powerful Chinese leader since Mao. Of course, it was a debacle, with Biden trying to pretend that President Xi Jinping doesn’t hold the trump cards right now in the U.S.–China confrontation. But it didn’t have to be this way.
Biden led us here, step by disastrous step.
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About the Author
Arthur Herman is a senior research fellow at the Civitas Institute at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of Freedom’s Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II.
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