China said it hoped Monday’s scheduled meeting between President Xi Jinping and US counterpart Joe Biden ahead of the G20 summit in Indonesia would put bilateral relations “back on track”.
“We are determined to achieve mutual respect, peaceful coexistence and win-win cooperation. At the same time, we will firmly protect our sovereignty, security and development interests,” said Mao Ning, spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
“We look forward to the United States working with China to properly manage our differences, avoid misunderstandings and misjudgments and put relations back on track for healthy and stable development,” Mao added at a news conference.
Xi Jinping arrived in Bali around 3:15 pm local time (7:15 am Lisbon), ahead of the start of the G20 summit, which will bring together the leaders of the most developed countries and major emerging powers.
This is his second trip abroad since January 2020, at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, after visiting Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan last September.
Joe Biden said he wanted to reopen dialogue with China and establish lines of action at a time of growing rivalry between Washington and Beijing.
The meeting between Xi and Biden comes at a time of renewed tensions between China and the United States, fueled by disagreements over the war in Ukraine, the Taiwan issue and restrictions imposed by Washington on the export of semiconductor manufacturing equipment to the US. Asian countries. country. .
Biden and Xi have a long personal relationship: the two met more than a decade ago when they were vice president and have met several times.
However, next Monday’s meeting is the first time they have met in person as heads of state, although they met via videoconference twice last year.
Source: DN
