President Biden Meets With Chinese President Xi in California

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President Biden met with Chinese President Xi Jinping yesterday for their first face to face meeting. In about a year, the two leaders are in San Francisco for the Economic Conference of Pacific Rim Nations. They discussed the importance of their relationship in the face of global challenges including a climate change, narcotics, artificial intelligence, the COVID pandemic and the world's economy. President Biden held a press conference last night after the meeting and in the months ahead, we're going to continue to preserve and pursue high-level diplomacy at the PR C in both directions to keep the lines of communication open, including between President Xi and me. He and I agreed that each one of us could pick up the phone call directly and we be heard immediately. We have disagreements. He has a different view than I have on a lot of things, but he's been straight. I don't mean that good, bad or indifferent. It's just been straight. President Xi has met with several world leaders over the past several months, actively promoting his idea of establishing a quote new world order. President Biden is eager to demonstrate why an improved relationship between the US and China remains critical. The last time the two leaders spoke face to face was a year ago in Bali.