White House says Biden, China’s Xi may talk in coming weeks
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden could speak along with his Chinese language counterpart Xi Jinping within the coming weeks, nationwide safety adviser Jake Sullivan mentioned aboard Air Drive One on Thursday.
“I would not be stunned if, within the coming weeks, President Biden and President Xi communicate once more,” he mentioned.
Sullivan spoke on Wednesday with Yang Jiechi, a key international coverage adviser to Xi, and mentioned he was “direct with him about our considerations about North Korea’s nuclear and missile actions and our view that this isn’t in China’s pursuits.”
“It’s not in America’s pursuits, and that China ought to ponder taking no matter steps it may well to scale back the opportunity of a provocative North Korean act, … we had an excellent forwards and backwards on that topic,” he mentioned, including that Taiwan and different points have been additionally mentioned.
Biden lands in South Korea on Friday night, the place he meets new President Yoon Suk-yeol with North Korea on the prime of the agenda.
North Korean chief Kim Jong Un deserted a freeze on intercontinental ballistic missile testing and seems poised to renew testing of nuclear bombs, maybe whereas Biden is within the area.
(Reporting by Trevor Hunnicutt; writing by Kanishka Singh and Costas Pitas; Enhancing by Caitlin Webber and Leslie Adler)
