Have you notice the communications after the meeting between Xi Jinping and Joe Biden are so different. You thought they had never met.

Have you notice the communications after the meeting between Xi Jinping and Joe Biden are so different. You thought they had never met. 你有沒有註意到習近平和拜登會晤後的向國民報告如此不同。 你以為他們從未見過面.

The communication from Joe Biden is the same old same old fake news since Obama such as Xinjiang, Tibet, Hong Kong, South China Seas, Taiwan and etc pretending that America like God could do no wrong. 喬拜登的通訊是奧巴馬以來的舊假新聞，新疆、西藏、香港、南海、台灣等假裝美國像上帝一樣不會做錯, 祇有美國説了算.

US need to wake up, China is not your vassal states like Japan and S Korea, nor your disposable chess like Taiwan and Afghanistan. 美國需要醒醒，中國不是像日本和韓國是你的附庸國，也不是像台灣和阿富汗那樣的你可以隨意下的棋。

The US Empire mouthpiece such as NYT, Fox News, CNN, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and etc have been repeating the fake information non-stopped to brainwashed Americans. 紐約時報、福克斯新聞、美國有線電視新聞網、華盛頓郵報、華爾街日報等美帝國喉舌不斷向被洗腦的美國人重複虛假信息.

What US Government should do is to tell Americans the truth that US is not God nor the ability to go out to steal, rob and turn nations not willing to kowtow into modern day US colonies or face destruction like Iraq, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan and etc. 美國政府應該做的是告訴美國人一個真相，美國不是上帝，再也沒有能力出去偷竊，搶劫和把不願意磕頭的國家變成現代美國殖民地或面臨像伊拉克、利比亞、敘利亞、阿富汗和阿富汗等地被美國任意破壞.

Majority of the Americans still lives on cloud nine not knowing the nation is start falling apart. 大多數美國人仍然生活在雲九，不知道這個國家正在開始分崩離析.

How could US compete with China when Americans are being lied to everyday? 美國人天天被騙，美國怎麼能和中國競爭？

China on the other hand tells her citizens the truth, the challenges they faced and the nation must unite to work together, work hard, innovative and smart to compete and overtake US with defined goals, objectives and business plan. 另一方面，中國告訴她的公民真相，他們面臨的挑戰，國家必須團結一致，共同努力，努力工作，創新和聰明，以明確的目標和商業計劃與美國競爭並超越美國.

China will overtakes US including decoupling with US on key technologies within the next 3-5 years, US has no one to blame but herself. 中國將在未來3-5年內超越美國，包括在關鍵技術上與美國脫鉤，請美國不要怪別人祇可以怪自己.

San Francisco Bay Area China Group: I think the Xi-Biden meeting is a significant event in US-China relations. For the first time since the end of the last cold war around 1990, the US is treating another country as its equal. As Xi said in the meeting, “China and the US should respect each other.”

Not that the US wants to, but it is forced to do so. The US lost the tariff War with China. Its tech war against China has achieved some results, but this is spurring China to become adequately self-sufficient in tech and supply chains and may cause western firms to lose a big part of the China market. Just ask Ericsson. The US discovers that it needs China’s cooperation to solve its own problems, such as its high inflation (high tariffs on Chinese goods being one reason) and supply chain issues, in addition to world problems of climate change  and the pandemic. Remember the disastrous Alaska meeting where Blinken and Sullivan tried to dress down China, and the Wendy Sherman July meeting “speaking from a position of strength,” according to our state department. So the US has changed its attitude towards China within 9 months. Blinken also promised that the US would not try to change China’s political system. While it is doubtful whether the US will keep this promise, at least it has drawn a line in the sand, which the US refused to do until now.

This does not mean things will be hunky dory going forward. As you pointed out, the US is talking about boycotting the Beijing winter Olympics. I am sure the US will still confront China (phrased as “fierce competition”) as it has been doing over the Taiwan and human rights issues and selectively cooperate with China when it is in its interest to do so. I agree with Joseph Leung of Singdao that the US does not know how to handle China, and is improvising as it goes. Confrontation has not worked to US’s expectations, but it retains the illusion that it can still trip up China’s progress by various tricks. This may be the reason why there are many mixed and inconsistent signals from the Biden administration. Biden had also to contend with the box Trump has locked him in with respect to the US’s China policy. The public atmosphere in the US about China after Trump is so toxic now that it will be difficult for Biden to cooperate with China. So he is caught in a rock and hard place. He has to seek China’s help, much as Obama had to in 2009, but he cannot appear to be appeasing China.

Boycotting the Beijing winter Olympics, as you said, is the low hanging fruit for Biden. Biden could very well forbid all US officials to attend the event while leaving it up to the US Olympic committee and the athletes to decide whether to attend or not. Given the toxicity around China in the US, Biden will run into much trouble if he sends US officials to the event.

Chinese sources watching the western governmental pronouncements think that the China policy of allies of the US may be changing after the Xi-Biden meeting and the Joint US-China Declaration on climate change . The allies may be thinking that since the US now acknowledges China as a great power, consulting and cooperating with China at least in some areas, why should they go all out to attack China? I guess we will see. This is the lesson Japan learned when it was broadsided by Nixon’s visit to China in the 70’s without informing it beforehand.

China, on the other hand, is hunkering down for the long haul and it knows that the standoff with the US will last years, if not decades. It is tackling many of the tough problems left over from prior years. I do not need to describe these measures, since they have been discussed in our group.

So to conclude, what we will see will be a situation where the US and China will confront each other on some matters while working together on others in a complicated relationship. Whether confrontation dominates or cooperation dominates the relationship depends on the relative strengths of the two countries at the time. There appears to be no simple way to gauge. The US and China are off to a race. At the end of the day, the country with the best governance and makes the fewest mistakes will win. Unless, of course, the US gives up on its hegemony over the world, an unlikely event, in which case the two countries can cooperate without confrontation.