The White House announced that US President Joe Biden wanted to reopen a dialogue during his meeting today, Monday, with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, but he will also seek to determine “guarantees” in the context of the growing tension between Washington and Beijing.
The two leaders are scheduled to hold long talks on Monday on the Indonesian island of Bali, on the eve of the G20 summit, which includes the largest economy of the world.
“We are in competition,” the White House said.
President Biden realizes this, but he wants to make sure that the competition has limits, that we build protection barriers and that we have clear rules of the road and that we do all of this to ensure that competition does not turn into conflict.
A US official told reporters that the American president has the support of his “allies and partners” regarding this approach.
He added, “There is wide support for our determination to build a ground for the relationship in order to increase communications responsible. ”
The two leaders have spoken by phone or video five times since Biden arrived at the White House in 2021, but they have known each other since 2017.
In addition to China’s refusal to condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Washington and Beijing are at odds on issues ranging from trade to human rights in the Chinese Shinjiang region to Taiwan’s situation.
The American official pointed out that “the world expects” the two countries to work together on certain issues and “we as a responsible country, we certainly believe that we must do so. “.
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