Washington: US President Joe Biden denied on Tuesday, a media report that Chinese partners, Xi Jinping, last week refused an offer from Biden for a face-to-face meeting.
The Financial Times quoted many people released in a 90-minute call between the two leaders last week said XI did not take Biden on the offer and instead insisted that Washington adopted the lack of Beijing’s tone.
“That’s not true,” Biden said when asked by reporters if he was disappointed that XI did not want to meet him.
National Security Advisor Biden, Jake Sullivan, said in an initial statement on Tuesday that the report was “not a depiction of accurate calls.” An existing source of those who said the call confirmed the report was accurate.
“XI apparently sucked that the tone and atmosphere of the relationship need to be enhanced first,” said the source to Reuters.
The Chinese Embassy in Washington did not respond immediately when asked to comment.
The Financial Times quoted one of the sources that Biden had floated the peak as one of several possibilities for follow-up with XI, and he did not expect immediate responses.
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Saying that while XI was not involved with the idea of ​​the Summit, the White House believed that part of the concern about Covid-19.
The G20 Summit in Italy in October has been discussed as a place that allows for face-to-face meetings, but XI has not left China since the plague of pandemic earlier last year.
In his statement, Sullivan added: “As we say, the President discusses the importance of being able to have a private discussion between the two leaders, and we will respect it.” The call between Biden and XI is the first in seven months and they discuss the need to ensure that competition between the two largest economies in the world does not serve into conflict.
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before the conversation calls it the test whether the upper level involvement can immediately end what has become a deadlock in the bond, which is at the worst level in decades.
The White House said after that it was intended to keep the communication channel open, but had announced plans for follow-up engagement.
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In China wearing a “serious difficulty” on the relationship, but adding that both parties agreed to maintain frequent contact and asked the working level team to improve communication.