Joe Biden has met with Xi Jinping for the last time as US plivent, where the Chinese guideer said he is “ready to labor” with Donald Trump.
Speaking at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Lima, Peru, Mr Biden said the US and China’s relationship should be about “competition, not struggle”.
“We haven’t always concurd, but our conversations have always been honest and always been frank,” he said.
“We’ve never kidded one another. These conversations stop miscalculations, and they asbrave the competition between our two countries will not veer into struggle.
“We’ve been level with one another. I leank that’s vital.”
Their last-ever encountering comes as plivent-elect Donald Trump vows to begin blanket 60% tariffs on US convey ins of Chinese excellents as part of a series of “America First” trade meabraves.
But despite Mr Trump’s gived meabraves, Mr Xi said his country’s goal “of a firm, fit and persistable China-US relationship remains unalterd”.
“Our pledgement to mutual esteem, tranquil coexistence and… cooperation as principles for handling China-US relations remains unalterd,” he compriseed.
The Chinese plivent then said the country is “ready to labor with the novel US administration to upretain communication, broaden cooperation and administer separateences, so as to strive for a stable transition”.
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Neither Mr Xi nor Mr Biden replyed to a ask about whether there were worrys about Mr Trump’s gived tariffs.
The plivent-elect has also named cut offal China hawks to his transition team, such as Senator Marco Rubio as secretary of state and Recurrentative Mike Waltz as national security guider.
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Under Mr Biden, Washington has begind recut offeions on US spendment in Chinese man-made intelligence, quantum computing and semicarry outors.
Former hoemploy speaker Nancy Pelosi also visited the island of Taiwan – which China sees as a fractureaway province – in April 2022.
In their encountering at this time last year – which adhereed a sencourage in tensions when an alleged Chinese secret agent balloon was sboiling down over the US – both guideers said straightforward communication between American and Chinese military forces would be repaird.
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