{"id":38483,"date":"2024-04-03T15:01:06","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T15:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=38483"},"modified":"2024-04-03T15:01:09","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T15:01:09","slug":"biden-and-xi-hold-first-discussions-since-november-talk-taiwan-and-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=38483","title":{"rendered":"Biden and Xi hold first discussions since November, talk Taiwan and tech"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Al Jazeera:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>United States President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping have had their first direct conversation since November, with officials describing their talk as \u201cconstructive\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But details from Tuesday\u2019s phone call hinted at long-running tensions between China and the US, with Xi calling questions of sovereignty in Taiwan a \u201cred line\u201d not to be crossed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The leaders last <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2023\/11\/15\/joe-biden-meets-with-chinas-xi-jinping-on-sidelines-of-apec-summit\">spoke on the sidelines<\/a> of the 21-member Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in California in November, with both sides hailing progress while remaining at loggerheads over issues like Taiwan and technology development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking to reporters on background on Tuesday, a US official said the call was meant to be more of a \u201cchecking in\u201d and was not necessarily meant to achieve any policy breakthroughs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe two leaders held a candid and constructive discussion on a range of bilateral, regional, and global issues, including areas of cooperation and areas of difference,\u201d the White House said in a statement following the call.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Xi, meanwhile, told Biden that the two countries should adopt a baseline principle of \u201cno clash, no confrontation\u201d for the year, according to state broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe should prioritise stability, not provoke troubles, not cross lines but maintain the overall stability of China-US relations,\u201d Xi said, according to the broadcaster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al Jazeera: United States President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping have had their first direct conversation since November, with officials describing their talk as \u201cconstructive\u201d. But details from Tuesday\u2019s phone call hinted at long-running tensions between China and the US, with Xi calling questions of sovereignty in Taiwan a \u201cred line\u201d not to be crossed. The leaders last spoke on the sidelines of the 21-member Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in California in November, with both sides hailing progress while remaining at loggerheads over issues like Taiwan and technology development. Speaking to reporters on background on Tuesday,&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38484,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38485,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38483\/revisions\/38485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}