What Jinping gained from his meeting with Biden

In his public comments to Biden, Xi suggested that China sought peaceful coexistence with the United States, and he told business leaders that China was ready to be a "partner and friend" of the US.

When Chinese President Xi Jinping met with leaders for dinner Wednesday night in San Francisco, he was greeted with not one, but three rounds of applause from the American business community.

It was one of several public relations victories for the Chinese leader on his first trip to the United States in six years, where he and President Joe Biden struck deals involving fentanyl, military communications and artificial intelligence on the sidelines of the Economic Cooperation Asia-Pacific.

All three were outcomes the United States had sought from China, not the other way around, said two people briefed on the trip.

But Xi appeared to have achieved his goals: winning US policy concessions in exchange for promises of cooperation, an easing of bilateral tensions that will allow more focus on economic growth and a chance to attract foreign investors. that are increasingly shunned by China.

Removal of sanctions

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Securing Xi's promise of Chinese cooperation in stemming the flow of fentanyl to the United States was at the top of Biden's to-do list for the summit. A senior US official has indicated that the agreement under which China will go after specific companies that produce phenathyl has been made on a "trust but verify" basis. In return, the US government on Thursday removed a Chinese public security forensics institute from the Commerce Department's trade sanctions list, where it was placed in 2020 for alleged abuses against Uyghurs, a long-sought diplomatic target for China.

Critics warned lifting sanctions against the institute signals to Beijing that the US entity lists are negotiable and have questioned the Biden administration's commitment to pressure China over what it says is the Chinese government's genocide of the Uyghurs.

"This undermines the credibility of our list of entities and our moral authority," said a spokesman for the Republican-led House of Representatives' select committee on China.

Moreover, Biden's Republican opponents argue that the US is missing an opportunity by not using China's economic momentum for more diplomatic gains.

Biden has also touted as a success an agreement to resume military dialogues suspended by China after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's 2022 trip to Chinese-claimed Taiwan.

But while Beijing would welcome lower tensions, it is unlikely to change Chinese military behavior that the US views as dangerous, such as interceptions of US ships and aircraft in international waters that have led to a number of clashes .

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Biden administration officials have acknowledged that establishing a working military-to-military relationship will not be as easy as semi-regular meetings between defense officials.

Friends and partners?

In his public comments to Biden, Xi suggested that China sought peaceful coexistence with the United States, and he told business leaders that China was ready to be a "partner and friend" of the US, words aimed in part at a business community. alarmed by China's crackdown on various industries and its use of bans and exit bans on some executives.

Similarly, Xi's televised garden walk with Biden and the largely respectful reception accorded Xi by his American hosts were highlighted in China's tightly controlled media to show domestic audiences that the president theirs is managing the country's most important economic and political relations.

At the same time, Xi repeated to Biden points he made earlier this year to Russian President Vladimir Putin, urging the US president to view US-China relations through "accelerating global transformations unseen in a century." ".

Analysts say this is code for the belief that China - and Russia - are reshaping the US-led international order.

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However, this time pragmatism may have trumped ideology. China recognizes that it is still necessary for its economic progress to have somewhat normal relations with the US and Western countries, said Li Mingjiang, a professor at the Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore.

Translated by: Blerta Haxhiu