'Hell of a job': Biden's reaction and 5 other takeaways from Blinken's trip to China

U.S. President Joe Biden said Secretary of State Antony Blinken "did a hellhole of a job" successful Beijing.

His comments came aft Blinken's high-profile diplomatic ngo to China, aimed astatine soothing strained ties with Beijing.

"We're connected the close way here," Biden said Monday.

In a astonishment meeting, Blinken met Chinese President Xi Jinping for a 35-minute gathering toward the extremity of his two-day visit. He is the highest-level American authoritative to sojourn China successful astir 5 years.

Asked if helium felt advancement had been made successful the Blinken-Xi meeting, the U.S. president responded: "You don't person to inquire that. You tin inquire however overmuch advancement was made."

Blinken besides met China's apical diplomat Wang Yi arsenic good as Foreign Minister Qin Gang during the visit.

Here are different takeaways from Blinken's travel to China:

Biden wasn't the lone 1 who saw advancement successful the talks.

"The 2 sides person agreed to travel done the communal knowing President Biden and I had reached successful Bali," Xi said successful a video carried by Chinese state-owned media CCTV.

Both sides besides "made advancement and reached statement connected immoderate circumstantial issues," helium said without disclosing further details. "This is precise good."

Xi called for unchangeable relations with the U.S., saying the satellite needs the narration of the 2 economical giants to beryllium "generally stable."

The U.S. State Department described the talks arsenic "candid, substantive, and constructive."

Blinken's gathering could pave the mode for Biden to conscionable Xi successful November.

"Both sides agreed connected follow-on elder engagements successful Washington and Beijing to proceed unfastened lines of communication," according to the State Department.

The caput of State invited Qin to sojourn the U.S. and they agreed to docket a reciprocal sojourn astatine a mutually suitable time, according to the statement.

While nary day was announced, they agreed to support high-level interactions, according to the Chinese government.

The conversations betwixt Qin and Blinken person been "largely positive" based connected the readouts from some nations, said Mark Hannah, elder chap astatine the Eurasia Group Foundation.

"While overmuch gets near retired of these authoritative accounts, the connection each broadside chooses to qualify the meetings is an denotation of the code which was struck," Hannah told CNBC. 

Chinese authorities media quoted Xi arsenic saying: "Competition among large powers does not conform to the inclination of the times, fto unsocial lick America's ain problems and the challenges facing the world."

Bonnie Gasler, managing manager of the Indo-Pacific programme astatine German Marshall Fund, said this constituent successful Xi's code was "problematic."

"In my view, it volition not beryllium imaginable to stabilize bilateral ties unless Beijing accepts that contention is present the ascendant diagnostic of U.S.-China relations and requires progressive and effectual management," Gasler told CNBC.

The Biden medication has been trying to person the Chinese to judge contention arsenic the mainstay of the relationship, and admit that it is indispensable to enactment unneurotic to negociate the contention and "prevent contention from veering into conflict," Gasler tweeted.

Tech rivalry betwixt the U.S. and China besides intensified successful caller months, with the U.S. blocking China's entree to precocious spot tech and China banning cardinal infrastructure operators from buying U.S. tech elephantine Micron's products.

According to a People's Daily statement, Wang asked the U.S. to springiness up its alleged "China menace theory," and to assistance sanctions against China and to halt suppressing China's technological development. The State Department did not instantly respond to a petition for remark connected China's statement.

Robert Daly, manager of the Wilson Center's Kissinger Institute connected China and the U.S., acknowledged that the likelihood of warfare is low, but said the rivalry volition spell on.

"There's a associated decision, a associated realization that we mustn't spell to war, but some countries are going to support competing successful each scale of powerfulness each implicit the world, by each means abbreviated of war," Daly told CNBC earlier Xi's gathering with Blinken.

Blinken besides said helium raised concerns astir China's "provocative actions successful the Taiwan Strait, arsenic good arsenic successful the South and East China Seas."

But helium sought to guarantee Beijing: "On Taiwan, I reiterated the longstanding U.S. 'one China' policy. That argumentation has not changed."

China considers Taiwan portion of its territory that needs to beryllium reunified with the mainland. Beijing has ne'er renounced the usage of unit against Taiwan and has been utilizing progressively assertive rhetoric toward the island.

"We bash not enactment Taiwan independence. We stay opposed to immoderate unilateral changes to the presumption quo by either side. We proceed to expect the peaceful solution of cross-strait differences," said Blinken adding that Washington remains committed to the Taiwan Relations Act, including making definite that Taiwan has the quality to support itself.

In his gathering with Blinken connected Monday, Wang emphasized that "safeguarding nationalist unity volition ever beryllium the halfway of China's halfway interests." He added that the U.S. indispensable "respect China's sovereignty and territorial integrity, and intelligibly reason 'Taiwan independence.'"

Geopolitical tensions could inactive stay high, however.

"Neither country's menace assessments are going down. They haven't changed their menace assessments. We haven't changed our intentions. We haven't changed our tactics," Daly told CNBC anterior to the Xi-Blinken meeting.

"These dialogues are terrific, the much of them we have, the amended — but determination is nary motion to day that either broadside is truly changing immoderate of its assessments of itself of the other," Daly told CNBC's "Squawk Box Asia" Monday.

The State Department said Blinken emphasized that the U.S. volition ever basal up for Americans' values, and addressed China's "unfair and nonmarket economical practices and caller actions against U.S. firms."

Xi maintained his stance that the U.S. indispensable respect China and "not harm China's morganatic rights and interests," adding that Beijing volition besides respect the interests of the U.S. "and volition not situation oregon regenerate the U.S."

"Neither enactment tin signifier the different according to its ain wishes, fto unsocial deprive the different of its morganatic close to development," said Xi.