Biden and Xi met for nearly 4 hours in San Francisco to discuss issues that have strained U.S.-China relations, and disagreements persist, especially over Taiwan.
The White House said Wednesday that U.S. President Joe Biden's meeting with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping was a "frank and constructive discussion."
The two leaders had a frank and constructive discussion on a range of bilateral and global issues and exchanged views on areas of disagreement.
While the US president stated that Beijing and Washington need to make sure their competition does not veer into conflict, Biden asserted that the US will continue to compete strongly with China, but we will manage this competition responsibly so that it does not veer into conflict, and where our interests match, we will work together.
With Xi, he also discussed human rights issues, Taiwan, and the China Sea, he added.
Biden also asked the Chinese president to use his influence with Iran to urge Tehran not to launch proxy attacks on U.S. targets in the Middle East as the conflict between Israel and Hamas continues in Gaza.
Xi told Biden ahead of their first meeting today in California that bilateral relations, the most important "in the world," have not been "going smoothly" at all for the past five decades or more, but have continued to move forward. The Chinese leader stressed that competition is not the solution to the two countries' problems and that the planet is big enough for both countries to succeed.
The China News Agency also reported Thursday that U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping have agreed to restore military communications and have also agreed to set up bilateral exchanges on artificial intelligence and an anti-drug working group.
