All right, Alexander, let's talk about a possible meeting between Biden and Xi Jinping.

Politico picked up this story over the weekend.

They said that from their sources in the Biden White House, they are very close to getting a meeting next month in San Francisco during the Asia-Pacific summit between the Chinese leader and the president of the United States.

But just yesterday, Wang Yi, the foreign minister of China, he said, not so fast.

Not so fast. We haven't gotten there yet. We talked, Gavin Newsom's trip to Beijing and how that might

have been to try and get a meeting closer together between, put closer towards Biden and

and Xi Jinping. And we're now at the foreign ministers, statement of China, where he kind of put the breaks on the potential meeting.

He said that Biden has to stop lying.

Is that possible to have Biden stop lying?

Well, well.

I don't know if that's achievable.

Well, exactly.

I mean, the U.S. has been making enormous efforts ever since the start of this year to get a summit meeting between Xi Jinping and Biden set up.

It's not entirely clear what the purpose of this summit meeting is, but I suspect primarily and ultimately it's about election issues.

The US wants to keep the situation with China,

at least somewhat stable, at a time when everything else in the world

is blowing up and going wrong.

So we have a crisis in Ukraine, we have a crisis in the Middle East.

Let's try and avoid at the moment a crisis

over the situation in the Indo-Pacific region. And of course, the other thing that I think

is always worrying for the Biden people is that they also want a stable economic relationship

with China in the lead up to the elections

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