Biden meets Xi amid heightened China-U.S. tensions

U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping met Monday successful idiosyncratic for the archetypal clip since Biden took bureau successful Jan. 2021.

"We request to illustration the close people for the China-U.S. relationship," Xi said astatine the opening of the gathering successful Mandarin, according an authoritative English translation. "We request to find the close absorption for the bilateral narration going guardant and elevate the relationship."

The gathering took spot successful Bali, a time earlier the G-20 acme is owed to footwear off.

The U.S. and China tin negociate their differences and halt contention from turning into conflict, Biden said, according to Reuters.

The 2 leaders held a videoconference successful Nov. 2021 and, among other communication, had a call successful precocious July.

Tensions betwixt the U.S. and China person escalated implicit the past respective years, touching flashpoints ranging from Taiwan and the warfare successful Ukraine, to the quality of American companies to merchantability high-end tech to Chinese businesses.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken were among the American representatives astatine the gathering successful Bali. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi was among the Chinese delegation.

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