The right time for a rendezvous


Face to face: Biden meeting Xi in 2013 in Beijing. Diplomatic chatter is suggesting that they meet in Singapore in March 2021 during the World Economic Forum there. — AFP

IT could not have come at a more opportune time. After a long three weeks, where President Joe Biden affirmed there was “no reason” to call President Xi Jinping, the call finally happened just two days prior to the beginning of the Lunar Year of the Ox.

The key issue now: given the weight and importance of a healthy Sino-US relations to stabilise the whole of Indo-Pacific, how quickly must they meet?

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