BALI: US President Biden has met with China’s President Xi on the sideline of G20 Bali Summit in Indonesia here on Monday.
Biden and Xi are meeting for the first time since Biden took office, at G20 summit pic.twitter.com/RyoBlAvPLy
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Speaking at the meeting, Biden said he and Xi have ‘responsibility’ to show US, China can ‘manage our differences,’ find areas of cooperation. He said US and China could manage their differences and stop competition from turning into conflict.
China’s President Xi Jinping, speaking on this occasion, said “we should find the right development direction for the improvement of bilateral relations. Politicians should think about both their own country’s devt path and the way to get along with other countries and the world.”
Experts say the US-China superpower sitdown, on the sidelines of the G20 summit, will be the first face-to-face between the pair since Biden took office.
Xi Jinping arrived in Bali on Monday afternoon, on only his second overseas trip since the pandemic, after a visit to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan in September.
Hours before the summit meeting today, a senior White House official quoted Joe Biden as saying that the meeting should establish each country’s “red lines”, and the overarching goal will be setting “guardrails” and “clear rules of the road”,
