US and Chinese leaders to discuss “delicate transition” in Lima
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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US and Chinese leaders to discuss “delicate transition” in Lima as President Biden holds his last talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping on sides of APEC summit. Also in the programme: families of Israeli hostages in Gaza on Donald Trump’s hopes to secure the hostages release; and we ask what happened on the dark side of the moon nearly three billion years ago?
(IMAGE: President Biden the APEC summit in Peru. CREDIT: Reuters/Leah Millis)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to NewsHour on the BBC World Service. I'm Celia Hatton, coming to you live from our studio in London. |
| 0:11.6 | We begin as the leaders of the world's two largest economies, the countries with the two largest militaries, the US and China, are poised to meet for their final time as |
| 0:22.7 | presidents. Joe Biden and Xi Jinping are attending the Apex Summit in Peru. The White House has |
| 0:29.1 | said their talks will focus on what it's called a delicate period of transition. Both |
| 0:34.5 | men have warned of potential dangers ahead as Donald Trump prepares to |
| 0:39.4 | retake office. On Friday, Mr. Xi said the world was facing turbulence and transformation, |
| 0:45.5 | urging governments to avoid protectionism. Mr. Trump has vowed to impose tariffs of up to |
| 0:51.5 | 60% on Chinese imports. |
| 0:59.8 | Our Asia-Pacific editor, Mickey Bristow, explained how US-Chinese relations developed under President Biden and what lies ahead. |
| 1:03.0 | President Biden continued a lot of the policies initiated by President Trump. |
| 1:08.0 | The tariffs against Chinese goods, he's gone further in some respects against |
| 1:12.9 | technology as well, stopping American firms selling high-level technology to China. It's even |
| 1:18.7 | introduced tariffs of his own, there's 100% tariff on electric vehicles from China. So, |
| 1:24.5 | President Biden's relationship with China has been really a continuation of what it was under President Trump. |
| 1:30.2 | Perhaps if you were looking for ways in which he's improved the relationship, |
| 1:34.5 | you could say that they've established or regular military-to-military conversations, |
| 1:39.5 | which when you've got two big armies trying to occupy the same space, |
| 1:46.6 | avoiding any kind of miscalculations, that's not a small thing. He's also re-established a pattern of talking to China. So there's been lots |
| 1:52.5 | of visits, for example, this year by senior US officials to China. But other than that, |
| 1:58.6 | I think it's characterized mostly by a continuation rather than |
| 2:01.7 | any change from Trump. We've been hearing today warnings from China of the dangers of |
| 2:10.0 | economic protectionism. What has Xi Jinping's been saying? I think what Xi Jinping has been saying |
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