“I told him all the time that we should not have a conflict, but there would be intense competition,” he told CBS about his relationship with Chinese President Xi Jinping while serving as US Vice President.
Biden noted that Washington intends to focus on "international rules of road behavior" in relations with Beijing.
Earlier, Yang Jiechi, a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, in charge of international affairs, during a telephone conversation with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, said that Beijing would not tolerate external interference.