Two appearances — one in Beijing over the weekend, and a joint press conference today at Washington — show which side of the global new equation is on the march.
China’s Communist Party chairman, Xi Jinping, met Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, over the weekend at the opening of the Beijing Winter Olympics. The two leaders of an emerging anti-American front smiled together for the cameras. They also released a 5,364-word joint statement to bolster their alliance.
On the other side of the world, President Biden met today with the new German chancellor, Olaf Scholz. The parley was followed by a White House press conference in which reporters probed disagreements between Berlin and Washington. Messrs. Biden and Scholz sought to gloss over their differences. Their protestations only put into sharp relief the gap between them — their weaknesses — in the face of the Ukraine crisis....To Read More.....
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