US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping have promised to cooperate on global challenges and take way to ameliorate simulated relations as they sat down for their first in- person meeting as public leaders on the sidelines of the G20 peak in Bali, Indonesia.
The meeting on Monday, which lasted three hours, involved “candid” conversations on a range of issues, including Taiwan, trade, and the Russian irruption of Ukraine, according to separate statements from their services.
Following the addresses, Biden told journalists he believed “there need be no new Cold War”, while their services said the two leaders stressed the significance of cooperation between Beijing and Washington to attack global issues.
“Biden underlined that the United States and China must work together to address international challenges similar as climate change, global macroeconomic stability including debt relief, health security, and global food security — because that’s what the transnational community expects,” the White House said.
The sanctioned Chinese news agency, Xinhua, also cited Xi as saying that the “two sides should work with all countries to bring further stopgap to world peace, lesser confidence in global stability, and stronger motivation to common development”.
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The meeting follows a shaft in pressures between the two countries after top US solon Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan before this time and Biden promised to defend the tone-ruled islet which Beijing claims as its own — if China invades it.
“ On Taiwan,( Biden) laid out in detail that our one China policy has not changed, the United States opposes any unilateral changes to the status quo by either side, and the world has an interest in the conservation of peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait, ” the White House said.
Under the “ One China policy ”, the US recognises the People’s Republic of China(PRC) in Beijing over the Republic of China( ROC) in Taipei as the sole and legal government of China. But Washington takes no position on Taiwan’s sovereignty, contending that its future should be determined by peaceful means.
This policy is different from the PRC’s “One China principle”, under which Beijing insists that Taiwan is an inalienable part of its home.
For his part, Xi stressed that the “Taiwan question is at the veritably core of China’s core interests, the bedrock of the political foundation of China-US relations, and the first red line that mustn’t be crossed in China-US relations”. Resolving this question is an internal Chinese matter and the US mustn’t use Taiwan as a tool to seek advantages in competition with China, he said, according to a readout of the meeting by the Chinese foreign ministry.
After the meeting ended, Biden told journalists that Washington doesn’t believe there’s immediate trouble of a Chinese irruption of Taiwan.
“I absolutely believe there need not be a new Cold War,” Biden said. “I’ve met numerous times with Xi Jinping. And we were candid and clear with one another across the board. And I don’t suppose there’s any imminent attempt on the part of China to foray into Taiwan.”
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‘No zero-sum game’
Beyond Taiwan, ties between Beijing and Washington have estranged over multitudinous other points of pressure in recent times, including trade issues, mortal rights, claims to the South China Sea, and an ongoing US trouble to fight China’s growing influence in the Indo- Pacific.
The White House said Biden raised enterprises with Xi over China’s “practices in Xinjiang, Tibet, and Hong Kong, and mortal rights more astronomically”. The US has indicted China of carrying out genocide against its Muslim Uighur nonage in the western region of Xinjiang — a charge that Beijing vehemently denies.
He also raised enterprises about “China’s non-market practices” and said it was precedence for Washington to resolve the cases of American citizens detained by Beijing.
“We ’re going to contend roundly, but I ’m not looking for conflict,” Biden told journalists on Monday. “I’m looking to manage this competition responsibly. And I want to make sure that every country abides by the transnational rules of the road.”
For his part, Xi said he “looks forward to working with Biden to bring China-US relations back to the track of healthy and stable growth to the benefit of our two countries and the world as a whole”.
He said that for the two countries to get on, they must honor and admire each other’s differences, including that “just as the United States has American- style republic, China has Chinese-style republic”. Neither side should try to remold the other in one’s image or seek to change or indeed lessen the other’s system, he said.
Xi went on to underscore that “competition should be about learning from each other to come one’s better tone and make progress together, not about taking others down in a zero-sum game”.
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“The Chinese nation has the proud tradition of standing up for itself. repression and constraint will only strengthen the will and boost the morale of the Chinese people,” he was quoted as saying.
“Starting a trade war or a technology war, erecting walls and walls, and pushing for decoupling and ramifying force chains run athwart to the principles of request frugality and undermine transnational trade rules. similar attempts serve no bone’s interests. We oppose politicising and weaponising profitable and trade ties as well as exchanges in wisdom and technology,” he added.
The conversations between Biden and Xi also touched on the Russian irruption of Ukraine.
The White House said the two leaders “reiterated their agreement that a nuclear war should noway be fought and can noway be won”. They also “underlined their opposition to the use or trouble of use of nuclear munitions in Ukraine”.
The Chinese readout said Xi told Biden that China was “largely concerned about the current situation in Ukraine”.
“China has all along stood on the side of peace and will continue to encourage peace addresses. We support and look forward to a resumption of peace addresses between Russia and Ukraine. At the same time, we hope that the United States, NATO, and the EU will conduct comprehensive discourses with Russia,” it said.
Both sides said the two leaders assigned their brigades to maintain regular contact to follow up on their conversations and resolve further issues. As part of this trouble, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will soon travel to Beijing, the White House said.
Andy Mok, the elderly exploration fellow at the Center for China and Globalization, a Beijing-grounded think tank, described Biden’s reflections as “moderate in tone and pacific”.
He added, still, that the concern is that US rhetoric may not match policy, specifically around Taiwan an issue that Xi is “adamant” about.
“But clearly it’s great that both sides are talking and there’s going to be more follow-up,” Mok told Al Jazeera.
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA
