The two leaders will discuss ways to responsibly manage the competition between the US and China.
US President Joe Biden will meet virtually with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, next Monday, November 15, in their first formal meeting amid growing tensions between Washington and Beijing, the White House confirmed Friday.
At the meeting, according to an official note, the two leaders will discuss “ways to responsibly manage the competition between the US and China, as well as ways to work together where interests converge.”
In addition, he added, Biden “will make clear the intentions and priorities of the United States.” and he will be “frank” about his “concerns about China.”
The meeting, scheduled for Monday night, will be the first formal between the two leaders since Biden took office in January this year and will come after the telephone conversation between the two leaders last September.
In it, Biden and Xi acknowledged their responsibility to ensure that “competition” between their respective countries “does not lead to conflict.”
In October, the White House national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, and the head of Chinese diplomacy, Yang Jiechi, held a meeting in Switzerland to ease tensions between the two powers – with friction on the commercial and technological planes. , human rights and security, among others.
Sullivan raised concerns about human rights in the Xinjiang region and Hong Kong, as well as the situation in the South China Sea and recent Chinese air raids near Taiwan, which have caused relations between Taipei and Beijing are going through their worst moment in recent decades, according to the island’s authorities. (I)
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