A moment of geopolitical hope the West must grasp
Apec summit: PM Jacinda Ardern to meet China President Xi Jinping
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will have a formal meeting with China’s President Xi Jinping when both leaders attend Apec in Bangkok at the end of the week.
It will be the first face-to-face meeting between them since her brief visit to China in 2019, although they did speak by telephone in 2021 when New Zealand was hosting Apec virtually.
The positivity of Biden and Xi’s extraordinary meeting and the weakening of Trumps fascism in the midterms are rare moments of hope in a turbulent world that the West desperately needs to seize to de-escalate the current tensions that are drifting us closer and closer to conflict.
Jacinda should seize that possibility in any dialogue with Xi.
If a break through at COP27 between China and America can occur then we can start pulling back from the brink, but it will only mean the world has backed down on one conflict front while still juggling the Russia/Ukraine war, the ongoing global pandemic, ongoing economic recession and catastrophic climate change.
The good news is one of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse might be reigned in, the bad news is there are still 3 others who aren’t.
We urgently need de-escalation because we will barely have the energy for everything else.
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She’s giving Xi some tips
Kirk28 “ She’s giving Xi some tips”… like you only need to eat meat 2x weekly… if you’ve got a fridge full of fish… and we’ve got the water water everywhere if you’ve got the plastic bots.
Awesome, massive increase in Chinese tourism and property speculation incoming in NZ.
An elephant feigning interest in the mutterings of a mouse.
Well done, you know how the economic cycle works!
You’re so busy worrying about the supposed ‘Trump Fascism’ that you forget that (almost and probably) ALL US Presidents are awful people, when you read up on them from sources other than the propaganda MSN.
Biden is a LOT worse than Trump and Obama was even worse.
But too many people think if they hate on Trump (who I agree is a crooked moronic ass) that anything will be OK.
A bit like removing Hitler so Stalin can take over IMHO……D’OH !!!
Trump’s only redeeming feature he acts mad in negotiations. No US wars started during his reign.
A couple of points you might have missed Martyn:
> The Biden administration has just picked up the Trump ball regarding China and is running with it.
> China is screwed and ultimately, I suppose, Xi along with it. Demographics, water supply, Covid containment, real estate collapse, recession, energy insecurity and diplomatic relations, China is facing headwinds in all areas. It’s so bad I doubt we’ll be talking about China as a country in ten years’ time. The West has at last picked up on this and China is now the supplicant, although it puts on a brave face about it.
China is screwed! Maybe but look at your list:
Demographics
Water supply
Covid containment
Real estate collapse Recession
Energy insecurity Diplomatic relations
Now apply that list to any country in the world, especially the West. Most will have multiples of those issues plus more of their own. Don’t kid us that we are superior or different, nor exceptional.
The pic is the describes kow tow perfectly.