WASHINGTON, United States - The United States and China agreed Friday to work towards setting up a meeting between the two countries' leaders next month, American officials said after President Joe Biden met Beijing's top diplomat at the White House.
WASHINGTON, United States - The United States and China agreed Friday to work towards setting up a meeting between the two countries' leaders next month, American officials said after President Joe Biden met Beijing's top diplomat at the White House.Biden has invited Xi Jinping to San Francisco in November for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, amid tense relations with China. Xi has not yet confirmed he will come.
A senior administration official said the White House was leaving it to Beijing to confirm that Xi would come but"we are making preparations for just such a meeting." US officials had"expressed our deep concern with the situation and pressed China to take a more constructive approach" including talking to its allies there, the senior administration official added.
The Chinese foreign minister had been expected to meet Biden after Blinken met Xi in Beijing in June, but it had not previously been confirmed.Wang said after meeting Blinken on Thursday that he wanted to"stabilize US-China relations" and"reduce misunderstanding" after years of tensions. The United States and China have also traded barbs over the conflict in the Middle East, where Biden has been Israel's foremost ally.
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