WITH the Israel-Hamas war further dividing a world shaken by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and elevated inflation, US-China ties are suddenly providing cause for some optimism.
President Xi Jinping’s government has engaged with a flurry of US leaders since June, with the Chinese President telling a visiting senator this month there were “a thousand reasons to make US-China relations better, and no reason to make them worse”—some of his most dovish recent comments on the relationship.
Chinese officials “understand that there is a small window of about three months to do this before the US goes into full blown election mode where both Democrats and Republicans will take tough positions on China,” said Theresa Fallon, director of the Brussels-based Centre for Russia Europe Asia Studies.
“Beijing is trying to at least calm down the tension between China and the US and stabilize relations,” Liu said. “But both sides understand that they cannot make a big compromise because of domestic pressure.”CHINA’S relationship with the US crashed in August 2022, after then-US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi defied Beijing’s warnings and visited Taiwan—the self-ruled democracy China claims as its own.
Earlier this week, Xi fired Li Shangfu from that role amid reports of a corruption probe. Replacing the defense minister with a non-sanctioned official may open the door for talks with Austin.OFFICIAL ties are also improving between economic officials. Since welcoming a flurry of US officials to China in recent months, including Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, Beijing has kicked off new working groups with the US.
China’s refusal to condemn Hamas after its deadly incursion into Israel is also a point of contention. Washington’s ambassador to China, Nicholas Burns, called on Xi’s government to denounce terrorism by Hamas in an interview with Bloomberg TV last week.
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