President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping have started a virtual meeting that is likely to last several hours
President Joe Biden meets virtually with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday. | Susan Walsh/AP PhotoPresident Joe Biden opened his virtual meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping late Monday by calling for the U.S. and China to collaborate on climate change and other “vital global issues.”
“All countries have to play by the same rules of the road [and that’s] why the United States is always going to stand up for our interests and values, and those of our allies and partners,” Biden told Xi. “If past is prologue, I am sure that today we'll be discussing those areas where we have concerns — on human rights, on economics [and] to ensuring a free and open Indo-Pacific.”Xi responded through an interpreter that he was “very happy to see my old friend.
Xi was accompanied by his trade envoy, Vice Premier Liu He, Foreign Minister Wang Yi and China’s top diplomat, Yang Jiechi. Biden is seeking “a steady state of affairs between our two countries where we compete vigorously, where we push back on the many areas of concern we have with the PRC, and where we coordinate on issues where our interests align,” a senior administration official told reporters Sunday.
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