Over the weekend, President Biden traveled to New Delhi for a summit of the world's 20 biggest economies, or the G20. The talks largely focused on the Global South, which China has been courting with its hugely ambitious Belt and Road infrastructure initiative. In fact, it was the need to brush back Beijing that seemed to dominate Biden's own agenda.
and is watching carefully as Beijing struggles to contain a burgeoning economic crisis.
“I think China has a difficult economic problem right now for a whole range of reasons that relate to the international growth and lack thereof and … the policies that China has followed,” Biden said at a press conference in Hanoi, Vietnam, which he visited after the G20 summit.in an effort to box in China and dissuade its leaders from invading Taiwan or taking other aggressive steps to expand its reach.for developing nations in South America, Asia and Africa.
At the same time, Biden reassured, as he has many times before, that the United States has no interest in a direct confrontation with Beijing. “I don't want to contain China,” he said in Vietnam. “I just want to make sure that we have a relationship with China that is on the up and up squared away, everybody knows what it's all about.”Russia is a member of the G20, but President Vladimir Putin did not attend.
Western Europe may be entirely behind Ukraine, in part because Russia is a direct threat. But that's not the case elsewhere,
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