{"id":233625,"date":"2021-09-13T20:16:11","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T03:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=233625"},"modified":"2022-09-09T18:11:45","modified_gmt":"2022-09-10T01:11:45","slug":"biden-calls-xi-to-set-up-guardrails-on-the-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2021\/09\/biden-calls-xi-to-set-up-guardrails-on-the-relationship\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Calls Xi To Set Up \u201cGuardrails\u201d On The Relationship"},"content":{"rendered":"

Frustrated by tepid progress in talks on trade, climate, and the South China Sea, among other issues, President Biden called President Xi Jinping for the first time in seven months last Thursday. It was only the second such call of Biden\u2019s presidency, and comes after months of sometimes rancorous relations. At The New York Times, Zolan Kanno-Youngs and David E. Sanger reported on the Biden-Xi call<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n

The call, which a senior administration official said lasted 90 minutes, came at a particularly delicate time. Tensions are growing over Taiwan and the South China Sea, and Mr. Biden is trying to rally the West in what he calls a battle between \u201cautocracy versus democracy.\u201d It also came less than two weeks after the United States completed its withdrawal from Afghanistan, where China has been interested in mining for commodities.<\/p>\n

Even as Mr. Biden\u2019s senior officials stressed the importance of engaging directly with Mr. Xi after months of stalled discussions, administration officials on Thursday evening gave remarkably few details from the call. Mr. Biden did push China to agree to a set of guardrails for policymaking while also emphasizing the need to mitigate climate change, officials said.<\/p>\n

[\u2026] \u201cThe policies that the United States has adopted toward China for some period of time have pushed Chinese-U.S. relations into serious difficulties, and this is out of step with the fundamental interests of both countries\u2019 peoples and the shared interests of every country in the world,\u201d Mr. Xi said, according to a summary of the call issued online by the Chinese Foreign Ministry. \u201cWhether China and the United States can properly handle mutual relations is a question for the century that concerns the fate of the world, and both countries must answer it.\u201d [Source<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Translation of the Song dynasty poem cited by Xi in call with Biden pic.twitter.com\/4XhZGu03bq<\/a><\/p>\n

— Tom Hancock (@hancocktom) September 10, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n