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In a meeting with Biden, China’s Xi cautions US to ‘make the wise choice’ to keep relations stable
China’s leader Xi Jinping met for the last time with President Biden on Saturday, but was already looking ahead to President-elect Donald Trump and his «America first» policies, saying Beijing «is ready to work with a new U.S. administration.»
During their talks on the sidelines of the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Peru, Xi cautioned that a stable China-U.S. relationship was critical not only to the two nations but to the «future and destiny of humanity.»
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«Make the wise choice,» he cautioned. «Keep exploring the right way for two major countries to get along well with each other.»
Without mentioning Trump’s name, Xi appeared to signal his concern that the incoming president’s protectionist rhetoric on the campaign trail could send the U.S.-China relationship into another valley.
«China is ready to work with a new U.S. administration to maintain communication, expand cooperation and manage differences so as to strive for a steady transition of the China-U.S. relationship for the benefit of the two peoples,» Xi said through an interpreter.
President Biden shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping before a bilateral meeting, Saturday, in Lima, Peru. (Leah Millis/Pool Photo via AP)
Xi, who is firmly entrenched atop China’s political hierarchy, spoke forcefully in his brief remarks before reporters. Biden, who is winding down more than 50 years of public service, talked in broader brushstrokes about where the relationship between the two countries has gone.
He reflected not just on the past four years but on the decades the two have known each other.
«We haven’t always agreed, but our conversations have always been candid and always been frank. We’ve never kidded one another,» Biden said. «These conversations prevent miscalculations, and they ensure the competition between our two countries will not veer into conflict.»
Biden urged Xi to dissuade North Korea from further deepening its support for Russia’s war on Ukraine. The leaders, with top aides surrounding them, gathered around a long rectangle of tables in an expansive conference room at a Lima hotel.
They had much to discuss, including China’s indirect support for Russia, human rights issues, technology and Taiwan, the self-ruled democracy that Beijing claims as its own. On artificial intelligence, the two agreed on the need to maintain human control over the decision to use nuclear weapons and more broadly improve safety and international cooperation of the rapidly expanding technology.
President Joe Biden meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a bilateral meeting, Saturday, in Lima, Peru. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
There’s much uncertainty about what lies ahead in the U.S.-China relationship under Trump, who campaigned promising to levy 60% tariffs on Chinese imports.
Already, many American companies, including Nike and eyewear retailer Warby Parker, have been diversifying their sourcing away from China. Shoe brand Steve Madden says it plans to cut imports from China by as much as 45% next year.
In a congratulatory message to Trump after his victory over Vice President Kamala Harris, Xi called for the U.S. and China to manage their differences and get along in a new era. In front of cameras Saturday, Xi spoke to Biden — but it was unmistakable that his message was directed at Trump.
«In a major flourishing sci-tech revolution, neither decoupling nor supply chain disruption is a solution,» Xi said. «Only mutual, beneficial cooperation can lead to common development. ‘Small yard, high fence’ is not what a major country should pursue.»
Biden administration officials have said they would advise the Trump team that managing the intense competition with Beijing will likely be the most significant foreign policy challenge they will face.
On Saturday, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said Biden had reinforced to Xi «that these next two months are a time of transition» and that the president would like to pass off the U.S.-China relationship «in stable terms» to the new administration.
Biden has viewed his relationship with Xi as among the most consequential on the international stage and put much effort into cultivating it. The two first got to know each other on travels across the U.S. and China when both were vice presidents, interactions that both have said left a lasting impression. They last met a year ago on the APEC sidelines in Northern California.
Chinese President Xi Jinping meets with President Joe Biden during a bilateral meeting, Saturday, in Lima, Peru. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
«For over a decade, you and I have spent many hours together, both here and in China and in between,» Biden said. «We’ve spent a long time dealing with these issues.»
But the last four years have presented a steady stream of difficult moments.
The FBI this week offered new details of a federal investigation into Chinese government efforts to hack into U.S. telecommunications networks. The initial findings have revealed a «broad and significant» cyberespionage campaign aimed at stealing information from Americans who work in government and politics.
Sullivan said Biden raised the matter with Xi during their talks and that the U.S. will have more to say about the investigation in the weeks ahead.
U.S. intelligence officials also have assessed China has surged sales to Russia of machine tools, microelectronics and other technology that Moscow is using to produce missiles, tanks, aircraft and other weaponry for use in its war against Ukraine.
And tensions flared last year after Biden ordered the shooting down of a Chinese spy balloon that traversed the United States.
Biden wants Xi to step up Chinese engagement to prevent an already dangerous moment with North Korea from further escalating.
Biden, along with South Korean President Yoon Seok Yul and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, on Friday condemned North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s decision to send thousands of troops to help Moscow repel Ukrainian forces who have seized territory in Russia’s Kursk border region.
White House officials have expressed frustration with Beijing, which accounts for the vast majority of North Korea’s trade, for not doing more to rein in Pyongyang.
The North Koreans also have provided Russia with artillery and other munitions, according to U.S. and South Korean intelligence officials. And the U.S., Japan and South Korea have expressed alarm over Pyongyang’s stepped-up cadence of ballistic missile tests.
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Kim ordered testing exercises in the lead-up to this month’s U.S. election and is claiming progress on efforts to build capability to strike the U.S. mainland.
Xi and Biden started their day at the leaders’ retreat at the APEC summit, taking part in a photo where they all wore scarves made from vicuña wool, a symbolic animal for Peru. It’s common practice that leaders at these gatherings are given a gift — usually traditional clothing of the host country — that they don for the photo.
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