Biden will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping in person for the first time in a year on Wednesday during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in San Francisco.
"The president is determined to see the re-establishment of military-to-military ties because he believes it's in the U.S. national security interest," Sullivan said in an interview with CBS
Sullivan said on CNN's "State of the Union" that Biden would seek to "advance the ball" on military ties during his meeting with Xi, but declined to provide further details.
The Biden-Xi meeting is expected to cover global issues from the Israel-Hamas war to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, North Korea's ties with Russia, Taiwan, the Indo-Pacific, human rights, fentanyl production, artificial intelligence, as well as "fair" trade and economic relations, a senior U.S. official said.
They cleaned up the homeless people on the streets just to make way for this meeting. Incredible.
they actually went around and redid roads, curbs, and sidewalks in the general area. they repainted the lines on the roads. they (re?)painted the overpasses so they look nicer from underneath.
they opened a bunch of outdoor stalls in Chinatown and they're keeping them running late into the night, giving the appearance that it's a bustling diverse area that people frequent long after most of the businesses are closed.
From my experience on a normal evening most of Chinatown closes around 6pm and it becomes more of a ghost town than a bustling market.
They've been running state news propaganda about it non-stop for the past couple weeks. They love to talk about cleaning up SF's image from a dystopian nightmare into some sort of world renowned vibrant bastion of freedom, safety, and wealth.
it's disturbing
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If that were real it would still be a better jobs program than anything the US puts out.
Lol you’re totally right, all this is just the sort of thing that Americans accuse the DPRK of doing for western tourists.
SF cleaning up their house before guests come over to stay... I would love to see chinese media(or documentary or something) going to SF and on one street seeing a bunch of luxery cars, fancy dressed people, expensive ass restaurants and literally next street over bunch of homeless struggling to survive and do some story... maybe even pull some "fake and dystopian city"(like America loves to do with China and DPRK) stuff before and after the "clean up"
Chinese media never publishes shit like this even though it's so obvious out of what I assume to be some weird honor code only they follow (they literally banned making korean war movies in the early 2000s to "avoid harming the feelings of the American people"). I wish one day CCTV or something would just walk around the Tenderloin or Skid Row with a camera or some smth and get all the liberals to stfu but they'd never do it.
i feel the same way.. if they could just manage to scoot a few blocks off the beaten path and make it to the Tenderloin they'd get just a glimpse of what it's really like here
Tbh I feel like the Tenderloin would be the nice part of the downtown area in most midwestern cities.
The entire SOMA area is sorta sketchy tbh
Tbf, this policy has clearly since been reversed
"Potemkin village" is the correct word, western propaganda love to use it in their projections.
You know, I did not foresee America turning San Fransisco into a Potemkin village for the general secretary of the communist party of China. But I do find it kind of funny
Yeah, it was certainly not on my bingo card.
I’m on the record as being a San Francisco stan. Ignore all the liberalism and techbro crap - it’s still the most beautiful city in the US by a good margin. Walking around the city during the day is a genuinely nice experience.
But yeah, after dark it’s like the whole city shuts down. I mean, yeah obviously it doesn’t literally close up but I’ve walked through Chinatown, down Market, through Russian Hill etc at night and it’s almost disturbingly empty of bustling night life you’d expect from a city like that.
The best Chinese restaurants in SF are out in Richmond/Sunset, not Chinatown.
Change my mind.
You don't have to comrade.
What do you like in Chinatown? Every time I've gone, I've left sort of disappointed.
Genuinely? I barely go to the city anymore. And when I do it usually has something to do with golden gate park. So richmond/sunset works well. The few times I've been in chinatown I've been dissapointed.
The right parts of richmond/sunset are just as chinese but less touristy. Better food for locals.
That means they got to have baths and wash their clothes, right?
🙂
It would have been a nice moral flex to publicly insist on not doing that.
“In China we do not have an issue with homelessness. We ensure that every person has a home to live in since we guarantee that for everyone. As I walk around San Francisco, I’m delighted to see that clearly the US must have similar policies”.