“During the meeting, the vice president recalled the important message that President Biden emphasized in his November 14 meeting with President Xi: We must keep lines of communication open to responsibly manage the competition between our two countries,” the official said.
The meeting came on the sidelines of the “APEC” summit in Thailand, and less than a week after a meeting between the Chinese leader and his counterpart, Joe Biden.
Sino-American relations
- Biden met Xi at the G-20 summit in Indonesia last week.
- This meeting comes as the first face-to-face meeting between the leaders of the two largest economies in the world in 3 years, after the last time an American president shook hands with the leader of China more than 3 years ago, when Donald Trump was in the White House.
- During his meeting with Biden, the Chinese president said that the current Sino-American relations are in a critical situation and do not live up to what the peoples of the two countries and the peoples of the world are waiting for.
- The Chinese president added, “We have always maintained open contacts between us, but all of this cannot make up for the direct meetings between us.”
- Xi stressed that his country is willing to “have a candid dialogue to discuss the important strategic relations between our two countries as well as international relations.”
- For his part, the US President said: “We must work on coordination and dialogue in an open and transparent manner in what serves our interests and the interests of the world.”
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