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Tensions around Taiwan, the issue of artificial intelligence, trade policy and security issues were among the topics of Tuesday’s telephone conversation between the presidents of the US and China, Joe Biden and Xi Jinping, according to the AP agency.
Tuesday’s phone call was the first conversation between the two leaders since they met in November last year near San Francisco, and is intended to build on regular dialogues between the two powers, the agencies said.
Xi and Biden “sincerely and in-depth exchanged views on China-US relations and issues of mutual concern,” China’s state news agency said of the conversation. According to Chinese media, cited by Western agencies, the two presidents also talked about Russian aggression in Ukraine or the growing tension on the Korean Peninsula.
According to the AP, the phone call was the beginning of several weeks of high-level US-Chinese negotiations. Finance Minister Janet Yellen is scheduled to travel to China on Thursday, and Foreign Minister Antony Blinken is also scheduled to travel to China in the following weeks.
