JAKARTA - United States President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping held a face-to-face meeting on the sidelines of the G20 Bali Summit on November 15-16, 2022. They met when the relationship conditions between the two countries became increasingly harmonious, both in economic and geopolitical competition.
Increasingly heated up as US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ignored China's refusal and continued to visit Taiwan last August. The Chinese government considers the visit a provocative attempt and disrupts China's sovereignty over Taiwan. China then responded with the launch of a ballistic missile test on Taipei for the first time.
Biden and Jinping's meeting was held Monday (14/11) at the Mulia Hotel, Nusa Dua, Bali. The White House previously confirmed that the Biden and Jinping meeting in Bali was an effort to maintain and deepen communication lines between the United States and China. Also, to manage competition responsibly, and work together in terms of overcoming global challenges.
The two will seek common ground to resolve various conflicts, including conflicts of interest in Taiwan.
"We are in competition. President Biden accepted it but he wanted to ensure that competition was limited, that we built a guardrail, that we had clear road rules and that we did all of that to ensure that competition did not lead to conflict," said a DPR official, a senior white man. as written by Justin McCurry at TheGuardian.
Biden's approach has received support from allies and partners in the region, including major allies of Japan and South Korea who are also present at the G20 Bali Summit. This is because the main goal of the summit is to reduce misunderstandings and misperceptions in order to determine the right steps.
Biden and Jinping's meeting was the result of a lengthy discussion between US and Chinese officials over the past few months. Biden has held five phone calls and videos with Jinping since early 2021, but talks on November 14 were the first since 2017, when Biden was Barack Obama vice president. The last US president to meet Xi Jinping was Donald Trump, in 2019.
"I know Xi Jinping, he knows me," Biden said.
Former President of 6th Indonesia Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono assessed that Biden and Jinping's meeting could be a 'game changer' in the midst of a world atmosphere that is getting hotter today. Both because of the sharp increasing geopolitical confrontation, especially in the East Asia region, as well as the hotter the earth due to climate change.
Indeed, many are skeptical and pessimistic that Biden and Jinping's meeting will produce something meaningful. What's more, when you look at the rivalry between the two countries that is already widespread and has led to fundamental things, such as Taiwan's business.
Look how dangerous the East Asia and Southeast Asia are when the two largest military forces in the world are physically opposite each other. If there is any miscalculation or events in unexpected fields, such as US or Chinese units that suddenly shoot planes or warships "against them, a big war could occur," said SBY, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's nickname through his official statement on social media, Monday (14/11).
However, many also think otherwise. Whatever the outcome of Biden and Jinping's meeting in Bali, it will still provide benefits to the world. The availability of meeting in person and having a dialogue is a positive political language. Meeting is still better than not meeting.
The experience around the world teaches that conflict resolution can be obtained when the way of negotiations and negotiations are finally chosen. The meeting of the two hostile top leaders is often an entry point, or at least a good start," he said.
By speaking openly and listening to each other, both parties will understand what attitudes and actions are considered taboo for others. This is what is called a red line in the world of politics and international relations.
For example, China (China) may have too far off US interference with China-Taiwan affairs is an red line. Maybe vice versa for the US, the use of Chinese military instruments and resolving disputes with Taiwan and also with a number of countries in the region in the South China Sea territorial dispute are also considered red line, "wrote SBY.
The world needs togetherness between the United States and China to address various critical and fundamental issues at the global level, both in the short and long term. This includes overcoming the threat of climate change and global warming.
The two countries, said SBY, are the largest contributors to carbon emissions in the world that have caused the earth to get hotter. Both morally and in real action, both must stand at the forefront of prevention efforts, moreover, America and China have large financial resources.
Together, both must be able to act as saviors of our earth, of course with the contribution of all countries in the world. Without China and the US, all efforts to combat climate change will not succeed," said SBY.
I still believe that geopoliticals that are very confrontational, even a war, can still find a solution. An economic crisis, which often occurs in the world, also has a way to stabilize and restore. However, if the increase in global temperature penetrates 4 degrees from the pre-industrial era temperature, then at the end of the 21st century it is the end of our world," SBY added.
The togetherness of America and China is also needed to defuse the geopolitical and security situation in East Asia and Southeast Asia. They must have good intentions to make mutually beneficial agreements.
In fact, the good relations between the two superpowers can also prevent the heated situation on the Korean Peninsula and Japan. Also, it could pave new ways, a new approach to ending the war in Ukraine that has had a major impact on the world economy.
History teaches that positive pragmatism is prioritized, and approaches that are too ideological are ruled out. All countries certainly want to fight for their own national interests, but their international obligations cannot be abandoned," said SBY.
Hopefully President Biden's meeting with President Xi Jinping in Bali makes the world not only able to breathe a sigh of relief, but further away, our world becomes safer, fairer and more prosperous. A better world is always positive, "SBY emphasized.
Of the 20 G20 member countries, only three heads of state were not present at the Bali G20 Summit, namely Russian President Vladimir Putin, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, and Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. Head of the G20 Event Organizing Support Division, Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, said Putin was unable to attend due to domestic problems that must be resolved. Putin was represented by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergey Lavrov.
Jair Bolsonaro is still in transition after the general election in his country some time ago. Meanwhile, Obrador is said to have not attended because he never left his country. He was represented by Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard.
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