The ABC/Washington Post poll shows Republicans with “record lead” in the station’s spotlight for midterm elections in 2022. A record “dating back 40 years.” In the headline of the American newspaper, “Biden’s Approval Reaches New Low”.
Below, “Kamala Harris and Pete Buttigieg in the spotlight amid uncertainty about Biden’s political future.” He “says he plans to run for re-election, but as his 79th birthday approaches, even some of his allies aren’t sure if he will.”
And “the prospect of Trump making another shot at the White House makes Democrats increasingly tense.”
The New York Times is also showing signs that Biden may give up. It appeared at the end of a text about Harris, but that’s what caught the attention from his own reporters: a former senator, Biden’s “confidant” says he hopes he will run, “but that may not be the case.”
On the other hand, with headlines in the Wall Street Journal over the weekend, an article by former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd points out that the CP plenum “further strengthened the power” of Xi Jinping, making him “an America’s even more formidable adversary.”
And the South China Morning Post on Sunday headlined “Biden vs. Xi: Who Arrives Lead at Summit?” —with the illustration above. He does not respond, preferring to point out that the American “passed through the economic stimulus, but his Chinese counterpart consolidated his position at home.”
MONOTEMATICS
As portrayed by the American CNN to the Chinese Global Times, US and Chinese foreign ministers Antony Blinken and Wang Yi, in a preparatory conversation for this Monday’s Biden-Xi summit (15), practically only dealt with one point, Taiwan — where is the headquarters of the world’s largest chip maker, TSMC.
CHINESE CHIP
On the eve of the summit, US chip leader Intel, which was overtaken by TSMC in 2017, proposed “increasing its production in China as a solution to the US chip shortage, but the White House rejected it,” Bloomberg reported .
Japanese financier Nikkei interviews the CEO of China’s biggest chip maker, SMIC, which “keeps its expansion on track amid US crackdown” on Chinese semiconductors. The company “will triple its production capacity”, taking advantage of the greater internal demand, especially for smartphones.
THE FOURTH WAVE, IN THE NORTH
In Germany, the Süddeutsche Zeitung highlighted that Covid-19’s “fourth wave” has arrived “in full force”, while the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung headlined “The main thing is to get vaccinated!” (above).
In the US, at the top of the WSJ, “Cases Rise in the North and West” of the country, “making it difficult to stop the spread of the Delta variant just before the Thanksgiving holiday” in just over a week.
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