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US President Joe Biden agreed to meet ‘face to face’ with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in near future, as decided during the fifth phone call between the two leaders on Thursday, a senior White House administration official said.
As per ANI report, The phone call comes amid heightened tensions between the geopolitical rivals with Beijing issuing warnings against the US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s scheduled visit to Taiwan in August.
Addressing a media briefing, House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said, “The conversation was substantive, it was in-depth, and it was candid.”
“President Biden has continually emphasized the importance of maintaining open lines of communication to ensure that the United States and China manage our differences and work together on areas of shared interest. This call was part of our ongoing efforts to do that,” she added.
“They also discussed the value of meeting face-to-face and agreed to have their teams follow up to find a mutually agreeable time to do so,” the statement added.
US President noted that US-China cooperation benefits not only the two peoples but also people of all countries.
The official further said that it is important for the United States and China to work together on areas where our interests align, even when we have substantial differences or are engaged in competition in a number of different areas.
“But this is what responsible nations do. They manage areas where they have differences, and they find ways to work together for the good of their own people and for the common good of the people of the world, she added.
