Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday expressed a desire to have a “candid talk” with his American counterpart, Joe Biden, ahead of the G20 summit, with a view to improving relations between the two powers.
“I am ready to have a candid and in-depth conversation on issues of strategic importance to the relationship between China and the United States on a global and regional level,” Xi said at the start of the meeting with Biden on the Indonesian daily. island Bali. .
in turn, Biden was available for dialogue and said he hopes to avoid 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 summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, 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 will bring together the leaders of the most developed countries. brings together. and the major emerging powers.
The meeting 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 Asian country.
Source: DN
