WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden spoke by telephone with Chinese partner Xi Jinping on Thursday, the White House said, with the two leaders discussing the need to avoid allowing competition between the two largest economies in the world.
The relationship between Washington and Beijing was at their lowest point in decades and it was only a second call between leaders since Biden served in January.
A White House statement says the two leaders have “extensive and strategic discussions,” including “areas where our interests meet, and regions where our interests, values, and perspectives are different.” Chinese media reported the conversation was “candid” and “deep”, adding that President XI said the policy a.s.
In China imposing great difficulties between the relationship between the two.
Chinese reports add that both parties agreed to maintain frequent contact.
Occasional high-level meetings since XI and Biden’s first call in February have produced little progress on many problems, from climate change, to human rights, and transparency in the origin of Covid-19.
During the following month, both parties have attacked each other in almost continuously, often using vitriolic public attacks, slapped sanctions on their respective officials and criticized others because they did not uphold their international obligations.
“President Biden underlines the eternal interest in the United States in peace, stability, and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific and the world and the two leaders discuss the responsibilities of the two countries to ensure competition does not turn conflict,” said the statement.
Biden administration, who was preoccupied by a chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan, has indicated that the end of the United States of America will give us political and military leaders of space to focus on a more urgent threat from China’s rapid increase.
But Beijing quickly seized US failures in Afghanistan to try to describe the United States as a Changing Partner and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said last month that Washington should not expect Chinese cooperation about it or another problem if it also tried to “contain and Pressing “China.