WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping will hold a high-level meeting on Monday (local time), marking the first talks between the two leaders since the former took office.
The meeting is likely to cover a range of topics, including China’s military activity and human rights near Taiwan, as well as cooperation on climate change, The Hill reports.
In October, an in-principle agreement was reached for Biden and Xi to meet shortly before the end of this year. And since then officials have been working for several weeks to schedule the meeting.
The two leaders had spoken over the phone twice earlier, the most recent being in September.
“The two leaders will discuss ways to responsibly manage competition between the United States and the PRC, as well as ways to work together where our interests align,” White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said in a statement Friday. will discuss.” The meeting will be testimony to Biden’s vision of trying to work with China on areas of potential agreement, such as the coronavirus pandemic and climate change, while raising objections to China’s behavior on human rights, its trade practices and its military activity in Asia. -Pacific region, according to The Hill.
US-China tensions over a variety of issues, which escalated during the Trump administration, have continued in the Biden administration due to disagreements on multiple fronts.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and NSA Jake Sullivan met their Chinese counterparts in Alaska earlier this year. As The Hill reports, the meeting was memorably tense and raised questions about the way forward.
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