The country was holding its breath ahead of Joe Biden’s summit meeting with Chinese dictator Xi Jinping at the APEC conference in San Francisco. These days, you never know how Biden will perform on any given day. Thankfully, there didn’t appear to be any major gaffes, tumbles, or verbal breakdowns during the meeting, or at least no more than usual. But was anything accomplished? The situation between the United States and China has been beyond tense over the past couple of years as the Chinese seek to expand their global footprint both militarily and economically while trying to overtake U.S. hegemony, particularly in the Pacific. There were many pleasantries exchanged, and brief discussions of steps that could be seen as progress. But in the end, what we really seemed to get out of the summit was a suggestion that China would send more pandas back to America. (AP)Read More
Pandas? That’s What Biden Achieved?
