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President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi hold first phone call in seven months
Sep 10, 2021
Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Joe Biden spoke for the first time since February on Friday.It marked the second call between the leaders since Biden took office in January, as tensions between the world’s two largest economies simmer.
“President Biden underscored the United States’ enduring interest in peace, stability, and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific and the world and the two leaders discussed the responsibility of both nations to ensure competition does not veer into conflict,” the White House said in a readout of the call released Friday morning.
Chinese state media confirmed the call shortly afterwards.
Xi said in the report that, “on the basis of respecting each other’s core concerns and properly managing differences,” relevant departments of the two countries can engage for cooperation on climate, Covid prevention, economic recovery and major international and regional issues.
He said if there’s “confrontation” between China and the U.S., “both countries and the world will suffer,” while all will benefit if the two nations work together. That’s according to a CNBC translation of the Chinese text.
The state media report also included some description of Biden’s comments, including a remark that: “The two countries have no reason to fall into conflict as a result of competition.”
The two leaders last spoke just before the Lunar New Year — China’s most important holiday — in February in a call Biden said lasted two hours.
Friday’s call, which lasted for about 90 minutes, discussed a range of transnational issues and touched on economic issues, although that aspect of U.S.-China policy remains under review, Reuters reported, citing a senior U.S. administration official. The two leaders are able to be candid and honest with each other without lecturing, the official said.
The U.S. focus must be on rallying partners and allies, the official said in the report.
Both countries build regional ties
Biden’s strategy for dealing with China has centered on working with traditional U.S. allies. The preceding Trump administration had taken a more singlehanded approach of applying tariffs and sanctions on China in an effort to address longstanding business complaints of unequal market access and forced technology transfer.
The geopolitical landscape has grown more complex this summer with the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and the rise of the Taliban in a region that shares a border with China.
In the last several months, both China and the U.S. have increased efforts to build up political and economic ties with regional partners.
On Thursday, Xi said at a virtual meeting of the five BRICS countries — China, Russia, Brazil, South Africa and India — that Beijing would chair the BRICS summit next year and looked forward to working more with member nations, according to state media.
India Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired this year’s meeting.
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Overseas experts say Xi-Biden talks send positive signals to world
Sep 11 - Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday morning took a phone call from his U.S. counterpart, Joseph R. Biden, and the two leaders had candid, in-depth and extensive strategic communication and exchanges on China-U.S. relations and relevant issues of mutual interest.
The in-depth communication concerning the bilateral relations as well as major international issues between the two heads of states is vital for development of the bilateral ties, and the two sides should bring China-U.S. relations back to the right track of stable development as soon as possible for the good of the people in both countries and around the world, experts have said.
Martin Jacques, former senior fellow at the University of Cambridge, hailed the phone call between Xi and Biden as "a welcome development," adding that the two sides should continue communication on major issues in a bid to achieve better development of bilateral ties.
Jihad Awdah, a professor of international relations at Egypt's Helwan University, also noted that the phone conversation between the two presidents is an important step to ensure not turning the current competition between the two countries into future clash that could not be controlled.
The China-U.S. cooperation will prevent world chaos and bring benefits for the world, Awdah added.
As the world's two largest economies, China and the United States should act in good faith and cultivate trust, as paddling back the China-U.S. relations to the path of stability is a task that the two countries must take seriously, said Adhere Cavince, a Kenyan international relations researcher.
The preservation and stabilization of the China-U.S. relations is important for the well-being of people in both countries, and for peace, stability and development of the world, said French writer and sinologist Sonia Bressler.
"History and reality show that China and the United States have everything to gain from cooperating and everything to lose from fighting," she noted.
Biden, Xi hold 'candid' phone call for first time in seven months • FRANCE 24 EnglishSep 10, 2021
US President Joe #Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping have held a 90-minute telephone conversation, discussing the need to try to avoid their rivalry veering into conflict. The Biden administration has yet to establish a trade policy with #China. Despite worsening diplomatic tensions, bilateral trade has boomed this year, partly due to the pandemic. Plus, Facebook teams up with #Ray-Ban to launch "smart glasses" that let wearers listen to music, take photos and videos and share them online. US President Joe Biden and China's President Xi Jinping are shown in a combined imageUS President Biden, Xi Jinping Speak by Phone, With Beijing Saying US ‘Needs Cooperation’phone call comes amid growing tensions over Chinese actions in Tibet, Hong Kong, Xinjiang, and the South China Sea.Sep. 9 - U.S. President Joe Biden and China’s President Xi Jinping spoke in a phone conversation Thursday described by the White House as part of an effort to manage competition between the two powers, while Beijing on Friday called the outreach driven by American “anxiety” and need for Chinese cooperation on a range of global issues.
The conversation on Thursday night U.S. time, the two leaders’ second since Biden took office in January, covered “areas where our interests converge, and areas where our interests, values, and perspectives diverge,” the White House said in a Sept. 9 statement.
“This discussion, as President Biden made clear, was part of the United States’ ongoing effort to responsibly manage the competition between the United States and the [People’s Republic of China],” the White House said.
“President Biden underscored the United States’ enduring interest in peace, stability, and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific and the world, and the two leaders discussed the responsibility of both nations to ensure competition does not veer into conflict.”
China’s state-controlled media asserted on Friday that China had gained the upper hand in the exchange, however, noting that the conversation had been initiated at the request of the United States.
The phone call “highlighted Washington’s growing anxiety and need for China’s cooperation on key global issues,” including the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, climate change, and efforts to contain the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, China’s
Global Times said in a Sept. 10 report.
“While the discussions sent positive signals that both sides are aiming to maintain communication, the U.S. should take more action in correcting previous wrong deeds and respecting China’s interests, and not expecting China to cooperate while keeping it as an adversary,” the nationalistic, Chinese Communist Party-backed tabloid said...
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