Biden, Xi talks yield positive outcome
(VOVWORLD) - US President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping agreed on Wednesday to open a presidential hotline, resume military-to-military communications and work to curb fentanyl production, showing tangible progress in their first face-to-face talks in a year.
 US President Joe Biden and China's President Xi Jinping walk in the gardens at the Filoli Estate in Woodside, Calif., Wednesday, November 15, 2023, on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperative conference. (Photo: Doug Mills/The New York Times via AP, Pool) |
Biden and Xi met for about four hours on the outskirts of San Francisco to discuss issues that have strained US-Chinese relations.
Biden said the US and China had to ensure that competition between them "does not veer into conflict" and manage their relationship "responsibly.
"Xi called the US-China relationship "the most important bilateral relationship in the world," and said he and Biden "shoulder heavy responsibilities for the two peoples, for the world, and for history."