It's Monday, November 20, 2023.

I'm Albert Molar and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events

from a Christian worldview.

Ostensibly, the President of the United States and the President of China were in San Francisco

for a meeting.

The meeting was known as the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit and yet the most

important issue that took place wasn't in that meeting known as the APEC

rather it was in a private conversation between the President of the United States and the President of China.

Just a matter of a few months ago, it wouldn't have seen possible that this meeting would happen,

but it did happen, and the context was in the midst of escalating tensions between China and the

United States. And yet, the two presidents did meet. They met on American soil in

San Francisco because that's where the summit meeting

had been planned in terms of the larger Pacific group, but nonetheless it made a lot of headlines.

It didn't seem to make a lot of progress.

However, that doesn't mean that the meeting will go without historic value.

Because in one sense, there was value in world history and in the currency of world politics by having those two leaders

together, the President of the United States and the President of China.

Why would that be so important?

It is because right now, increasingly, many nations around the world,

see the global picture is basically bipolar. That is to say there are two big world powers

that are struggling for supremacy in whatever will be the new

world order.

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