Russel: 'China Feels That It Has the Wind at Its Back'
The Wall Street Journal has more details about this week's U.S.-China summit in Alaska, reporting that the Chinese negotiators plan to ask their U.S. counterparts to roll back policies implemented by President
Donald Trump. Beijing will also propose that the two countries hold regular bilateral meetings and that Presidents Biden and
Xi Jinping conduct a virtual summit in April during a global conference on climate change.
Daniel Russel said that China is approaching the Alaska summit with a great deal of confidence. "China feels that it has the wind at its back, that the East is rising and the West is fading," he said. He added that Beijing "will attempt to gain a better understanding of where the Americans are thinking the relationship will go and what might be possible."