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tonight with the context, victoria coates, senior energy advisor to the trump administration, and lord bilimoria, vice president of the confederation of british industry and founder of cobra beer. welcome to the programme. for the cameras, there were smiles and a firm handshake. joe biden has met xi xinping before, but this was the first time they had met in person since he took office. the two sides spent over three hours discussing the issues that have contributed to the worst us china relations in 50 years. president biden said he told his chinese counterpart that us policy on taiwan has never changed. he warned that if they were not able to rein in north korea, then the us would move to further protect its allies in the region. and of course they discussed ukraine and russia s continued threat to use nuclear weapons. so on the face of it,
both agree that united states is the single biggest threat to both a domestic stability and to international security, and want to constrain and contain the united states as much as possible. and for the chair has probably look askance at the russian experience in ukraine, their view is, at the russian experience in ukraine, theirview is, putin at the russian experience in ukraine, their view is, putin might be a bustard, but at least he is our bustard and we need to because we are locked in a long term competition with the united states. so, the question really becomes, at what point does china shift away from putin if his behaviour and the war becomes too costly? or do the chinese continue to de facto subsidised russian effort? and that is going to be important, because it will influence european alignment. and here i really mean it germany and france. in one of the reasons why chinese leader might want to do so much was because he wanted to project this image internationally after h