After cementing his power at home, the Chinese President stepped out onto the world stage to strengthen his relationship with the U.S.
According to a CNBC count of releases on the Chinese Foreign Ministry's English-language website, the Chinese president has met with more than 25 heads of state. The Chinese Communist Party's leadership reorganization in October paved the way for President XI to get a third term in office.
The president of the European Council was in Beijing on Thursday. The first Western leader to do so since the Pandemic was the Chancellor of Germany.
Michael Cunningham is a research fellow at The Heritage Foundation's Asian Studies Center. It will be a challenge for the US.
Cunningham said that the U.S. efforts to build overseas coalitions have been aided by the absence of China's leader.
After the Russia-Ukraine war, Beijing and the West became apart. Tensions between the U.S. and China worsened this summer.
According to analysts at the Eurasia Group,Xi is restoring his pre-pandemic level of diplomacy through bilateral meetings with many state leaders. He met with leaders of advanced industrial democracies for the first time since the outbreak of the Pandemic. The meetings fueled a positive outlook.
This year has seen a downward spiral of relations between the United States and China. The military leaders of the countries met for the first time in over a year.
Relations with the U.S. were aligning more with vague terminology that Beijing uses, such as "mutual respect" and "WIN-WIN cooperation."
The wording carries some token symbolism for China, according to the deputy director and associate research fellow at the China Institute of International Studies. The U.S. is dealing with others from a position of strength. It is not equal.
Climate change, public health and macroeconomic coordination can be worked on by China and the U.S. She said that it would be difficult to deal with traditional security issues such as the Ukraine crisis and how to work it out.
She said that the important thing was keeping in mind the responsibility of a major country to the world.
The United States has strengthened its ties with other countries and called China a competitor.
In the last several weeks, the heads of Japan, South Korea, Australia, Indonesia, and Italy met with both Biden andXi.
The political environment in China is different right now. The conditions are positive for China so that the relationships are on the right track.
He said that the world's most powerful countries are not opposing China's rise as a global power. We were on that track before the U.S.-China trade tensions came to a head.
In his speech at the Chinese Communist Party congress in October, Xi said that the Party has protected China's dignity in the face of international changes.
Before the political meeting, Xi traveled to Uzbekstan for a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. He met with the presidents of Russia and Turkey.
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