wall of steel. in his first speech of his unprecedented third term of president, the biggest applause came after xi repeated the pledge to reunite thailand with the mother land. it marks the end of a week-long political meeting that saw xi further consolidate his power and drive home how china needs to fortify itself against america s campaign to contain the country. less than a day after his speech, u.s. president joe biden hosting british and australian leaders to discuss details of the new aukus defense pact seen as a bid to counter china in the pacific. china s new foreign minister accused washington of plotting an asia-pacific version of nato and called america s china strategy a reckless. reporter: china s number two
one, they are locked down, the promises that they would have the jobs they were told they were going to get after they did all this education did not materialize. they don t have the private property thoughts they thought they might get. they look at their lives and every human heart there is a desire to be free. you are born with that. there is only so much people can take. i also wonder if after the president saw xi at the g20 and apparently didn t bring up covid, i would imagine it seems watching the white house response thinking that they are probably hoping that the white house continues to be tepid. because that s what is expected of this relationship. the biden administration will have the kind of cooperative relationship they set out to a couple weeks ago. i think it exposes how confused the biden administration s china policy is. you have climate change