President Joe Biden wanted to speak to Chinese President Xi Jinping in the aftermath of the US military shooting down a Chinese surveillance balloon near South Carolina. Senior administration officials and a former senior US official familiar with the discussions revealed that Biden believed that such a conversation could help reduce the tensions with Beijing. However, the president’s top national security advisers dissuaded him from making the call, saying that lower to mid-level conversations with the Chinese leadership would be more appropriate. The advisers explained that China was already too upset by the balloon’s shooting, making a direct conversation between the two national leaders unproductive.
Biden Seeks Conversation with China’s Xi Following U.S. Shooting of Surveillance Balloon
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