US president expected to urge Beijing to do more to curb North Korea and raise carbon reduction targets
Joe Biden, buoyed up by the military breakthrough in Ukraine and Democrat retention of the US Senate, said he would seek to establish red lines in the US’s relationship with China when he meets President Xi Jinping on Monday before the G20 summit of world leaders in Bali.
At an Asian summit on Sunday in advance of his first bilateral with Xi, Biden laid down some firm parameters about freedom of navigation in the South China Sea and warned China off from attempting an invasion of Taiwan, the independent state to which it lays claim. But he also said he wanted to keep lines of communication open with Beijing.