“I am strongly in favor of high-level contact between President Biden and Xi Jinping. This is the single most important channel between the two countries … We just have to be very clear-eyed about how Xi is describing this moment. He’s not describing this as a moment of how do we find guardrails? How do we avoid an accidental war? … He’s saying we have a moment of opportunity. It’s finite, we need to move and Europe is already in chaos. And in his view, the United States is already in decline. And he views those as favorable conditions for China achieving a community of common destiny for mankind, as he puts it.” -Matthew Pottinger