US President Joe Biden spoke on the phone with Chinese President Xi Jinping for the first time in seven months. This was announced by the White House. Biden expressed the hope that the “competition” between the two countries does not translate into “conflict”.
To his counterpart in Beijing, he expressed the reassurance of the United States that relations remain in a “competitive dynamic and that no situation of unwanted conflict will arise in the future”. A White House official told reporters.
The interview, reports the White House, was “broad and strategic” and concerned “the areas in which our interests converge and those in which our interests, values and perspectives diverge”. The two leaders “have agreed to engage in both cases in an open and frank way. The meeting, as President Biden has made clear, is part of the ongoing US effort to responsibly manage competition between the US and the People’s Republic. Chinese President Biden stressed the United States‘ enduring interest in peace, stability and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific area and the world, and the two leaders discussed the responsibility of both nations to ensure that competition does not turn out. in conflict “.
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