Biden wants to specify "guarantees" in his meeting with Shige

ARK News… The White House Monday announced that US President Joe Biden wants to reopen a dialogue during his meeting, with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jin Ping, but he will also seek to identify "guarantees" in the context of the increasing tension between Washington and Beijing.

The two leaders are scheduled to hold long talks on Monday on the Indonesian island of Bali, on the eve of a summit of the G20, which includes the world's largest economies. "We are in competition," the White House said. President Biden understands that, but he wants to make sure that competition has its limits, that we build buffers, that we have clear rules of the road, and that we do all of this to ensure that competition does not turn into conflict.”

A US official told reporters that the US president has the support of his "allies and partners" in this approach. "There is broad support for our determination to build the groundwork for the relationship to increase communication responsibly," he added. The two leaders have spoken by phone or video five times since Biden took office in 2021, but they have known each other since 2017.

In addition to China's refusal to condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Washington and Beijing are at odds over issues ranging from trade to human rights in China's Xinjiang region to the status of Taiwan. The US official indicated that "the world expects" the two countries to work together on certain issues, and "we, as a responsible country, certainly believe that we should do that."

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