Former U.S. official Henry Kissinger, now 100 years of age, met with President Xi Jinping during his current trip to China. Kissinger’s visit comes after those of Blinken, Yellen, and Kerry. Although Kissinger’s visit should not necessarily be interpreted as representing a true openness to change on the part of the Biden Administration, his reception by President Xi himself shows the importance that China attaches to improving US-China relations.
China faces increasing tariffs, difficulties with people-to-people exchanges, such as through FBI investigations of Chinese scientists and American scientists of Chinese descent, the chip wars, and tensions around Taiwan.
It is up to the United States to change its policy, so that the world’s largest two economies could collaborate on jointly eliminating poverty through expanding infrastructure, increasing energy use, and improving the productive powers of labor.
