Chinese President Xi Jinping expressed his desire on Monday to hold a “frank talk” with his US counterpart, Joe Biden, on the eve of the G20 summit, with a view to improving relations between the two powers.
“I am ready to have a frank and in-depth conversation on issues of strategic importance to the China-US relationship at the global and regional levels,” Xi said at the start of his meeting with Biden on the Indonesian island of Bali. .
For his part, Biden made himself available for dialogue and said he hopes to avoid a conflict between Beijing and Washington.
This is Xi Jinping’s second trip abroad since January 2020, at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, after visiting Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan last September, where he met his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, and participated in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit. , a security forum.
Biden and Xi opened their first face-to-face meeting since the US president took office nearly two years ago with a handshake at a luxury hotel in Indonesia, where they will attend the G20 summit, which brings together the leaders of the more developed countries. and the major emerging powers.
The meeting takes place at a time of renewed tensions between China and the United States, caused by differences over the war in Ukraine, the Taiwan issue and the restrictions imposed by Washington on the export of semiconductor production equipment to the Asian country.
Source: TSF
