Focus on China dominated Biden-Modi meeting in Oval office, reveals official
Narendra Modi and President Joe Biden during their meeting at the Oval Office last month spent a “plurality" of their time having discussions on China and its leader Xi Jinping, according to a senior administration official familiar with the discussion. As reported by PTI citing a senior administration official on conditions of anonymity, “In the Oval Office meeting between Modi and Biden, a plurality of that time was just spent talking about China...
and the experiences they've had with Xi, both knowing him for a long time trying really hard to have a relationship with him, and just both essentially giving up on." The official revealed that China was a major issue of discussion in the meeting. “In reality… it (China) is not the glue of our relationship at all, but it's one of the factors and I think we're gonna have that glue for a long time to come," said the official familiar with the discussions between the two leaders last month.
During Prime Minister Narendra Modi's state visit to the US between June 21 and June 23, he had three consecutive days of meetings with President Biden. On June 22, the two leaders had an extensive interaction, spending over eight hours together, which included a morning welcome at the White House and a State Dinner in the evening, PTI reported.
Both India and the United States believe that China poses a major national security threat to them, the official said, noting that the Biden administration thinks New Delhi has been ahead of Washington in terms of handling Beijing. The official further noted that the Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights Uzra Zeya had a meeting with the Dalai Lama a couple of weeks ago in New Delhi and “the Chinese kind of went
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