Xi Jinping to Biden: You Can Do Multipolarity The Hard Way or the Easy Way; It's Your Choice!

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Readings for the 33^rd Sunday in Ordinary Time: Proverbs 31: 10-13, 19-20, 30-31; Psalms 128: 1-5; 1^st Thessalonians 5: 1-6; Matthew 25: 14-3

What do you do about an economic system you no longer believe in? What if it's just interested in the monetary bottom line - making money without doing any real work. What if it shows no concern for women and their children?

Do you simply go along with something like that?

The readings for this Sunday show that it's an age-old question.

Last week's meeting between Joe Biden and China's president, Xi Jinping raised it again.

Let me show you what I mean.

Biden Meets Xi

So, they finally met. Xi Jinping and old man Biden in San Francisco. That happened last Thursday at the insistent request of U.S. president's team.

According to Alexander Mercouris, Xi showed up on his own terms predetermining where the summit would take place, making sure the streets would be cleaned up, and that there would be no anti-China demonstrations. China also set the meeting's agenda.

Before that, however, the Chinese president gave two speeches to high level representatives of the U.S. business community, including Elon Musk and Bridgewater CEO, Ray Dalio. At both, he received standing ovations for saying that China's doors are open for mutually beneficial business deals.

And the point of those agreements would not be to advance "America First," or "China First" agendas, but to benefit everyone on the planet - prioritizing women and children.

China's system, Xi implied, is not about favoring the wealthy according to some trickle-down theory. It's about improving the lives of everyone, beginning with the least - as shown by China's elimination of extreme poverty in its own context.

Perhaps despite all that, the U.S. business community liked what it heard. Again, those standing ovations. It likes Xi. It knows which side its own bread is buttered on.

But then came Xi's meeting with Biden. What happened there?

Well, according to the Chinese readout as summarized by Mercouris, President Xi gave our old man a stern lecture.

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