United States President Joe Biden spoke with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday and voiced America’s concerns with Beijing’s aggres...
United States President Joe Biden spoke with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday and voiced America’s concerns with Beijing’s aggressive economic policies, human rights abuses at home and coercive actions in the Indo-Pacific. This was the first conversation between the two leaders since Biden took oath last month.
In a press release, the White House said that Biden “underscored his fundamental concerns about Beijing’s coercive and unfair economic practices, crackdown in Hong Kong, human rights abuses in Xinjiang, and increasingly assertive actions in the region, including toward Taiwan”.
Biden affirmed his priorities of protecting the American people’s security and preserving a free and open Indo-Pacific, the White House said.
The leaders also exchanged views on countering the coronavirus pandemic, and the shared challenges of global health security, climate change and preventing weapons proliferation.
Biden also expressed hopes to cooperate with China on policy priorities. “I told him I will work with China when it benefits the American people,” Biden said on Twitter after the call.
I spoke today with President Xi to offer good wishes to the Chinese people for Lunar New Year. I also shared concerns about Beijing’s economic practices, human rights abuses, and coercion of Taiwan. I told him I will work with China when it...
