September 20, 2023

The US President Joe Biden has once again turned the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) into a runway for touting US "leadership." He has made the Ukraine crisis the spotlight of the gathering to shore up alliance of US-centered small cliques and used the crisis as a weapon to attack other countries at the meeting; whilst also covering up his cliché, hollow proposals for the Global South's development, which is the main focus of this year's UNGA.

Biden's move of diverting the focus of UNGA has again assured Global South countries Washington's lack of interest in helping developing nations, said Chinese experts. 

Apart from the usual snarling at Russia, Biden also made what seemed like softened-tone remarks on China-US relation, as "to responsibly manage competition" between Beijing and Washington "so it does not tip into conflict." In the eyes of Chinese experts, the US president's words only show the White House now has few arrows in its quiver for handling the world's most important bilateral relationship. They believe that although bilateral ties still have a "window of opportunity," the US' usual actions-don't-match-words practice makes it harder to predict if Washington will take any action to improve ties. 

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