reliance off Chinese manufacturing, including final congressional approval Thursday of legislation to encourage semiconductor companies to build more high-tech plants in the U.S. “This is one of the most consequential bilateral relationships in the world today, with ramifications well beyond both individual countries,” Kirby said.īiden has moved to shift U.S. “There are issues where we can cooperate with China on, and there are issues where obviously there are friction and tension.”īiden and Xi last spoke in March, shortly after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. “The president wants to make sure that the lines of communication with President Xi remain open because they need to,” Kirby told reporters at a White House briefing.
national security spokesman, said Wednesday that it was important for Biden and Xi to regularly touch base. military officials believed it was “not a good idea” for the speaker to visit the island at the moment. elected official to travel to Taiwan since Republican Newt Gingrich visited the island in 1997 when he was House speaker. “All ensuing consequences shall be borne by the U.S.” insists on going its own way and challenging China’s bottom line, it will surely be met with forceful responses,” Zhao Lijian, a spokesperson for China’s Foreign Ministry, told reporters earlier this week. She described that as “more positive than the two leaders informing each other, well, we’re going to stick to our positions on Taiwan.” Yun Sun, director of the China program at the Stimson Center think tank, noted that both countries said the conversation covered a wide range of topics, from the pandemic to climate change. “There’s a whole lexicon of Chinese threat speech that he hasn’t touched yet,” said John Culver, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s China Hub. While Beijing’s warning about playing with fire over Taiwan generated attention Thursday, it didn’t represent an escalation of Xi’s usual diplomatic rhetoric, U.S. relations and misreading China’s development, and would mislead the people of the two countries and the international community,” the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. “President Xi underscored that to approach and define China-US relations in terms of strategic competition and view China as the primary rival and the most serious long-term challenge would be misperceiving China-U.S.
Xi emphasized those claims during his call with Biden, according to China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The latest strain over Taiwan is House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s potential visit to the island, which has governed itself for decades but China asserts as part of its territory. However, he’s been formally invited to Indonesia in November for the next G20 summit of the world’s leading economies, making the conference a potential location for a meeting with Biden.
Xi has left mainland China only once, to visit Hong Kong, since the COVID-19 pandemic began. However, they have not met in person since Biden became president last year. When Biden was vice president, he spent long hours with Xi in the United States and China, an experience he often recalls as he talks about the two countries’ opportunities for conflict and cooperation. The official declined to be identified to talk about the private conversation. WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden and China’s Xi Jinping are exploring meeting in person, a senior administration official said after the leaders spent more than two hours Thursday talking through the future of their complicated relationship, with tension over Taiwan once again emerging as a flashpoint.īiden conducted the telephone call from the Oval Office, where he was joined by top aides, including Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
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