This is CBS Eye on the World, here's John Batchler.

With my colleague and friend Gordon Chang at Gordon G. Chang, the White House telling us

that there is a meeting planned by President Biden with the General Secretary of the Chinese

Communist Party Xi Jinping in San Francisco in these next days.

The White House characterizes this meeting as intense diplomacy.

We welcome Jonathan Moore, the author of the decisive decade American Grand Strategy

for Triumph Over China.

Jonathan, you have the Mandarin, intense diplomacy translated into Chinese.

Any significance of this?

Good evening to you.

Good evening.

I'm sure there is a translation.

We highlight you, maybe at Gordon, you could probably do it better, but yeah, look, I think

the Biden administration is trying to, in the context of international turmoil and multiple

major regions in the state of conflict, they continue to turn to China for the sake of

stabilization.

I mean, that's been part of the diplomacy towards China in the context of Ukraine.

I mean, trying to make sure that they don't lean too hard into that war, even though Beijing

is obviously backing Putin's invasion.

And now, in the Middle East, I mean, hoping that China will play a stabilizing role when

continues to hear about that sort of thing.

When, instead, the reality here, of course, is that there is this anti-American, anti-Western

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