Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman speaks with Chinese counterpart, ending military freeze

  • Bias Rating

    40% Medium Conservative

  • Reliability

    65% ReliableFair

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  • Politician Portrayal

    40% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Sentiments

Overall Sentiment

22% Positive

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"Thursday's call is the first high-level engagement that came out of President Joe Biden's meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, in which they agreed to restart military-to-military communications."
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16% Conservative
"Their conversation, which the Pentagon said was conducted over a video teleconference, marked the first senior U.S. military official to speak with his or her Chinese counterpart since Beijing suspended lines of communication in response to then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-CA) visit to Taiwan in August 2022."
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10% Conservative
"[Xi told Biden] that Beijing will reunify Taiwan with mainland China but that the timing has not yet been decided, NBC News reported, citing three sources familiar with the conversation."
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-14% Liberal
"Chinese officials also asked in advance of the summit that Biden make a public statement after the meeting saying that the U.S. supports China's goal of peaceful unification with Taiwan and does not support Taiwanese independence."
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-14% Liberal
"Before the Biden-Xi meeting, which occurred on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, U.S.-Chinese relations had deteriorated over the course of Biden's administration through a series of tumultuous events, including Pelosi's visit, the Chinese spy balloon incident, and the increased frequency of unsafe or reckless maneuvers committed by Chinese pilots or naval leaders in the vicinity of U.S. forces."
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-16% Liberal
"Before the Biden-Xi meeting, which occurred on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, U.S.-Chinese relations had deteriorated over the course of Biden's administration through a series of tumultuous events, including Pelosi's visit, the Chinese spy balloon incident, and the increased frequency of unsafe or reckless maneuvers committed by Chinese pilots or naval leaders in the vicinity of U.S. forces."
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-16% Liberal
"Before the Biden-Xi meeting, which occurred on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, U.S.-Chinese relations had deteriorated over the course of Biden's administration through a series of tumultuous events, including Pelosi's visit, the Chinese spy balloon incident, and the increased frequency of unsafe or reckless maneuvers committed by Chinese pilots or naval leaders in the vicinity of U.S. forces."
Negative
-16% Liberal
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-26% Liberal

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*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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