The American President is seeking to work on past meeting’s with the Chinese leader to cool any tensions between the two countries, ask for help with Russia and reaffirm the United State’s promise to help support Taiwan against any aggressive action’s by China…
Both parties have HUGE economic skin in the game….
President Biden and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, met for nearly three hours to hash out some of the thorniest issues in their relationship, including tensions over Taiwan, the economy and a return to climate negotiations.
Mr. Biden and Mr. Xi made a cautious promise to try to improve a relationship that is at its most rancorous point in decades, and he pledged to send his top envoy to China soon.
Mr. Biden warned Mr. Xi that China’s aggressive stance toward Taiwan threatened stability in the region and could ultimately jeopardize the global economy. Mr. Xi replied that Taiwan’s independence was as incompatible to peace and stability as “fire and water.”
“I do not think there’s an imminent attempt on the part of China to invade Taiwan,” Mr. Biden said at a news conference after the meeting.
Mr. Xi and Mr. Biden, in their first face-to-face meeting as top leaders, were betting big that personal diplomacy and their shared history could help mediate deep disagreements that threaten to easily derail their fragile accord.
About the global economy, Mr. Biden said that the United States would “compete vigorously, and I’m not looking for conflict. I’m looking to manage this competition responsibly. I want to make sure that every country abides by the international rules of the road.”
China, in its statement, said that teams from each government would work on implementing the points of consensus and “promoting the return of China-U.S. relations to a stable track of development.”..
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