Bali: US President Joe Biden met His Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping for the first time since he took charge in office, on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Bali on Monday.
Both the leaders shook hands, greeted each other, and sat down at their tables, flanked by officials on each side.
They smiled for the cameras and Xi — through a translator — appeared to say, “Good to see you.”
There have been five phone and video exchanges with Xi since Biden took office at the start of 2021, but Monday’s talks is their first in-person since 2017, when Biden was vice president to Barack Obama. The last time Xi met a US leader was Donald Trump in 2019.
According to a report by CNN, Biden during the talk said that “The world expects, I believe, China and the United States to play key roles in addressing global challenges.”
He further added that “As you know, I’m committed to keeping lines of communications open – between you and me personally but our government across the board, as our two countries have so much that we have an opportunity to deal with.”
President Xi Jinping added that “In our meeting today, I am ready to have a candid and in-depth exchange of views on issues of strategic importance in the China-US relationship. I look forward to working with you to bring China-US relations back on track with healthy and stable growth,”.
A senior White House official while speaking with ANI added that “We are in competition. President Biden embraces that but he wants to make sure that that competition is bounded, that we build guardrails, that we have clear rules of the road and that we do all of that to ensure that competition does not veer into conflict.”
The overview of US goals for the talks with Xi reflects both the magnitude of the challenge in stabilizing the US-China relationship and the low expectations.
Calling its policy and position toward the United States “consistent and clear”, Mao Ning, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson, hoped that “US and China would move in the same direction, properly manage differences, promote mutually beneficial cooperation, avoid misunderstandings and miscalculations, and promote the return of China-US relations to the right track of healthy and stable development.”
(With Agency Inputs)
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