Biden meets Chinese FM, calls for cooperation on 'global challenges': White House

US President Joe Biden met China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi as two countries seek to smooth ties ahe of a possible visit by Chinese leer Xi Jinping. Both leers have called for working toger to dress global challenges, on Friday, October 27. According to White House's statement, Biden has emphasized that both United States and China need to dress "competition in relationship responsibly and maintain open lines of communication." Furr, he has "underscored that United States and China must work toger to dress global challenges," res White House statement.  

Notably, encounter with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has been latest in a series of high-level contacts between two countries. Both US and China have been working to explore possibility of stabilizing an increasingly tense relationship at a time of conflict in Ukraine and Israel. meeting of two, Biden and Wang, took place in Roosevelt Room of White House. According to ministration spokesman John Kirby, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and national security viser Jake Sullivan were also present.

US and China relations: A way forward

While talking about meeting, Kirby said that US President Biden has considered meeting as "a positive development, and a good opportunity to keep conversation going." relationship between two superpowers has been going through a rough patch. Wang has come to Washington at a time when tensions between two countries remain high which includes US export controls on vanced technology and China's more assertive actions in East and South China seas. Notably, Bejing has not yet confirmed if Xi will travel to San Francisco for annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit next month.

Earlier, citing impact of US-China relations on world peace and development, Chinese President Xi Jinping said that Beijing is rey to work with Washington, to "properly manage differences", contribute to each or's progress and push for common prosperity, reported Chinese state media agency Xinhua. Furr, Xi also remarked that China is willing to work with US based on three principles of "mutual respect, peaceful coexistence and win-win cooperation".