Biden raises Taiwan and human rights with Xi Jinping in first phone call
--- The conversation came hours after the US president announced a new Pentagon taskforce on China ---
Joe Biden has affirmed the US’s tough line on China’s human rights abuses and regional expansionism in his first phone call with president Xi Jinping since taking office.
Xi defended China’s policies as matters of sovereignty, but told the US leader confrontation would be “a disaster”, and called for the two sides to re-establish the means to avoid misjudgments, according to state media.
The call came just hours after the announcement of Biden’s establishment of a Pentagon task force on China and a senior state department official meeting in person with Taiwan’s representative to the US.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.th...an-rights-with-xi-jinping-in-first-phone-call
--- The conversation came hours after the US president announced a new Pentagon taskforce on China ---
Joe Biden has affirmed the US’s tough line on China’s human rights abuses and regional expansionism in his first phone call with president Xi Jinping since taking office.
Xi defended China’s policies as matters of sovereignty, but told the US leader confrontation would be “a disaster”, and called for the two sides to re-establish the means to avoid misjudgments, according to state media.
The call came just hours after the announcement of Biden’s establishment of a Pentagon task force on China and a senior state department official meeting in person with Taiwan’s representative to the US.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.th...an-rights-with-xi-jinping-in-first-phone-call