In the Chinese press, the virtual summit was greeted with apparent relief.
In the CP-linked Global Times/Huanqiu headline, “Rare long encounter Xi-Biden ‘injects certainty into bilateral ties'”. And from the private South China Morning Post, “Xi-Biden Summit: US and China emphasize need to maintain status quo in Taiwan.”
In American, the coverage wanted more.
In the New York Times headline, “US-China Summit Produces Polite Words and Little More,” adding, in the internal utterance, “But words help.” And from the Washington Post, “Biden and Xi discuss risky topics at the virtual summit, not making any headway.”
The Wall Street Journal got in the way, “Biden and Xi lower the temperature of hostilities in virtual meeting” (below, with a rare smile from the Chinese leader).
GLOBALIZATION CONTINUES
The Japanese-British Financial Times highlighted, even more than the summit coverage, the article “Don’t believe the narrative of deglobalization”, by a Harvard academic. Just below, “The numbers show that trade is not slowing and foreign investment continues to flow into China.”
At the beginning of the pandemic, “many wrote an obituary for globalization centered on China”, but “the globalization of production is very well established and it makes a lot of sense for companies to reverse” now.
ONE MONTH FROM WINTER
After several days on the news of alleged Russian military aggression to Ukraine and even to Poland, a German agency postponed the certification of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, linking Russia to Germany, already completed. Newspapers such as Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung highlighted that the “delay causes gas prices to rise”.
And the German financier Handelsblatt, which can still take place “a quick commissioning” even without the agency’s certification. In Russian Komsomolskaya Pravda’s call, “It doesn’t mean anything”.
WATER CANNONS AT 0º
In the Washington Post home, with video, “Polish forces use water cannons on the border with Belarus and immigrants throw stones”, with the temperature at zero degrees. This, “the day after new European Union sanctions on Belarus”, in support of Poland.
Also in the French Le Monde, “Thousands of immigrants are targeted by water cannons and tear gas”, and other Europeans.
POLAND AGAINST CHINA?
The Chinese Global Times reports that “Poland is considering cutting its rail link with Belarus”. And “many Chinese companies are worried about side effects because it’s a vital channel for China-Europe freight trains.”
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