Biden after meeting with Xi: there is no new cold war with China

President Joe Biden commented that The United States does not seek conflict with China and has dismissed fears of a “new Cold War”.” after a meeting with the Chinese president Xi Jinping On the sidelines of the G20 summit in Indonesia, AFP, Reuters and AP reported.

Biden said it He doesn’t believe China has any immediate plans to invade Taiwanwhile giving a positive assessment of his talks with Xi, his first face-to-face meeting with the Chinese leader since taking office.

“I don’t think there is any immediate attempt by China to invade Taiwan,” Biden said at a news conference following the Bali talks.

Biden also underlined this there is no change in Washington’s one-China policy and said the United States opposes any unilateral change to the status quo in Taiwan.

Xi and Biden have tried to defuse tensionsas they spoke for more than two hours on the Indonesian resort island of Bali, with both presidents stating so they want to prevent high tensions from turning into conflict.

“It’s good to see you,” Biden told Xi as he hugged him, adding to reporters that he was busy keeping lines of communication open at personal and governmental levels.

“As leaders of our two nations, I think we share the responsibility to show that China and the United States can handle our differencesprevent competition from turning into conflict and find ways to work together on pressing global issues that require our mutual cooperation.”

Biden said he had “open and frank conversationwith his Chinese counterpart on US intentions and priorities. The White House commented that “Biden explained that The United States will continue to compete vigorously” with China, while reiterating that “this competition must not turn into conflict”.

The US and China “must manage competition responsibly and keep the lines of communication open”, reads the text.

As a sign of bilateral progress after the meeting, the White House announced that the Secretary of State Anthony Blinken visits China – the highest ranked visitor from the United States of 2018.

Tensions rose sharply around Taiwanwith China holding major military exercises in August following a visit to what it says is the self-ruled democracy by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

He told Biden so Taiwan is “the first red line that must not be crossed in relations between China and the United States,” according to the Chinese foreign ministry statement.

Despite the clash with Taiwan, the White House said it had found some common ground with China on the Russian invasion of Ukraine – a high priority for Biden, who hopes to deprive Moscow of its main potential source of international support.

Xi and Biden “reaffirmed their agreement a nuclear war should never be fought and can never be won and emphasized their opposition to the use or threat of the use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine,” the White House said in a statement.

China, despite its rhetorical support for Russia, has not supplied weapons for the war in Ukraine, such as Moscow is forced to rely on Iran and North Koreaaccording to US officials.

Biden also cheered China to contain its ally North Koreaafter a record series of missile tests raised fears that Pyongyang will soon carry out its seventh nuclear test.

China had an obligation to try to dissuade North Korea from conducting a seventh nuclear test, Biden told reporters in Bali. However, she admitted it it is not clear whether China has the capacity to do this.

“It’s hard to say whether China has the capability or not,” Biden said. But she stressed that “all members of the international community have an interest in encouraging” North Korea to act responsibly.

Although Monday’s meeting was the first meeting of Xi and Biden as presidents, the two have an unusually long history together.

According to Biden’s estimates, he spent 67 hours as vice president personally with Xiincluding a 2011 trip to China to better understand China’s then-future leader and a 2017 meeting in the final days of the Barack Obama administration.

Xi will hold his first official meeting with an Australian leader since 2017 on Tuesday, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced, following a concerted pressure campaign by Beijing against the close US ally.