President Joe Biden and Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping agreed during their first meeting during this administration that Secretary of State Antony Blinken would travel to China to continue the pair’s work repairing strained relations between the two countries, according to the White House.
The Biden-Xi meeting, which lasted roughly three hours, was wide-ranging, broaching human rights to non-market economic practices, in addition to Russia‘s war in Ukraine and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un‘s increased missile tests, the U.S. readout stated.
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“President Biden raised concerns about PRC practices in Xinjiang, Tibet, and Hong Kong, and human rights more broadly,” the White House said Monday. “He raised U.S. objections to the PRC’s coercive and increasingly aggressive actions toward Taiwan, which undermine peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait and in the broader region, and jeopardize global prosperity.”
Prior to the meeting, held on the sidelines of the Group of 20 leaders summit in Bali, Indonesia, national security adviser Jake Sullivan and several senior administration officials detailed Biden’s aim of developing “guardrails” with Xi so “we have clear rules of the road and that we do all of that to ensure that competition does not veer into conflict,” in the words of one aide.
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“President Biden underscored that the United States and China must work together to address transnational challenges — such as climate change, global macroeconomic stability, including debt relief, health security, and global food security — because that is what the international community expects,” the White House said afterward. “The two leaders agreed to empower key senior officials to maintain communication and deepen constructive efforts on these and other issues.”
