Biden desperately needs something that can be described as a foreign policy win. He promised victory in Ukraine and failed to deliver. He supported Israel's genocide and is now facing backlash at home and from abroad. Making peace with one of America's great enemies makes him look competent and statesman-like and China is the only realistic candidate for that.
On a geopolitical level, everyone knows that the US is now embroiled in the EU and ME for the time being. China kicking off in the Pacific could cause a cascade failure of the US Empire. The rational thing to do is to mend fences with China in the short term to avoid that. In addition, Biden wants China to continue buying (and stop dumping) US Treasury bonds to avert a debt financing crisis. Optimistically, he might also want the Chinese on side with another 2008-style bailout if the US economy goes into recession again.
Biden desperately needs something that can be described as a foreign policy win. He promised victory in Ukraine and failed to deliver. He supported Israel's genocide and is now facing backlash at home and from abroad. Making peace with one of America's great enemies makes him look competent and statesman-like and China is the only realistic candidate for that.
On a geopolitical level, everyone knows that the US is now embroiled in the EU and ME for the time being. China kicking off in the Pacific could cause a cascade failure of the US Empire. The rational thing to do is to mend fences with China in the short term to avoid that. In addition, Biden wants China to continue buying (and stop dumping) US Treasury bonds to avert a debt financing crisis. Optimistically, he might also want the Chinese on side with another 2008-style bailout if the US economy goes into recession again.
all this makes sense! Yet that new head general talked about being ready for 3 wars, it sounds like a joke.
i suppose i am just in disbelief that the rational thing could in fact be occuring