China–United States relations

Endy Zemenides, the Executive Director of the HALC, joins Thanos Davelis to discuss the efforts to press the Biden administration to move the F35 sale to Greece forward, and break down why progress in Greek-American relations should not be affected by the dysfunctional relationship between the US and Turkey. 

Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, a towering figure in global diplomacy, passed away at his Connecticut residence at the remarkable age of 100, as reported by The Washington Post.

He added that their previous meetings were "honest, direct and useful".
"As always, there is no substitute to face-to-face discussions. I've always found our discussions straightforward and frank," Biden said", as CNN reported.

President Joe Biden is gearing up for a pivotal engagement with Chinese President Xi Jinping, emphasizing the pivotal goal of reestablishing normalized and consistent communication channels between the United States and China.

The presidents of the United States of America and China, Joseph Biden and Xi Jinping, will meet today at the Filoli estate, 30 miles south of San Francisco, where they will discuss bilateral and global issues for about four hours, sources familiar with the plan of the meeting told the Voice of America (VOA).

The United States and China are the two global economic heavyweights. Combined, they produce more than 40 percent of the world's goods and services.

So when Washington and Beijing do economic battle, as they have for five years running, the rest of the world suffers, too.

U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping will hold their first meeting in nearly a year next week on the sidelines of the APEC summit in San Francisco, officials from the rival superpowers said Friday.

Four years after his last trip to China in November 2019, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is visiting again. A lot has changed in the interim. The Covid-19 pandemic dramatically influenced relations between the West and China. Both sides are now in a delicate process of reducing dependencies - to the extent this is feasible in a globalized world.

US President Joe Biden on Sunday expressed disappointment that Chinese leader Xi Jinping would not attend the G20 summit in India this week, as Washington seeks to repair relations with Beijing.

Asked about Xi reportedly not planning to join the gathering in New Delhi, Biden told reporters, "I am disappointed, but I am going to get to see him," without elaborating.

The US Embassy in Athens and its Consular Section, the US Consulate General in Thessaloniki, and all US government offices in Greece will be closed on Monday, September 4, in observance of Labor Day, a US federal holiday.