Biden carries Trump's hard line toward Beijing to coming summits
"As a candidate, President Joe Biden cast himself as an anti-Donald Trump whose approach to foreign challenges would look nothing like that of the president he sought to replace. But since Biden became president, his China stances have, more often than not, echoed his predecessor’s — surprising even some China hawks.
Yet the Biden administration has also maintained that stiff competition should not and need not preclude narrow cooperation between the countries in a handful of areas of common interest, like climate change.
Now, as world leaders prepare to gather within days for the G20 summit in Rome and the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland — gatherings that Chinese President Xi Jinping plans to skip — their approach is being put to the test."