Joe Biden and Xi Jinping maintain dialogue without hiding their differences
Despite a rivalry between Beijing and Washington which makes communications complicated, dialogue continues between the two great powers. Joe Biden and Xi Jinping spoke on the telephone on Tuesday April 2, to discuss current issues and above all to reaffirm their differences of views.
The discussion between Xi Jinping and Joe Biden on the telephone this Tuesday, April 2 is their first official exchange since their interview last November near San Francisco (illustrative image) REUTERS - Kevin Lamarque
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“
A frank and constructive dialogue
” is how diplomats describe meetings where disagreements are agreed upon. It was in this spirit that this nearly two-hour phone call took place, the first since their interview last November near San Francisco. They promised to stay in touch and manage their competition responsibly. This had not always been the case before the summit, particularly for communications between military personnel which had become non-existent.
Xi Jinping and Joe Biden took stock of their rare areas of agreement: the fight against drug trafficking, against climate change, the risks linked to artificial intelligence and maintaining lines of communication. The White House mentioned in a press release a conversation focusing as much on the possibilities of “
cooperation
” as on “
disputes
”.
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Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit China soon. They will be able to take stock of everything that the United States criticizes China: its commercial practices, its pressure on Taiwan, its increasingly threatening military presence against freedom of navigation in the South China Sea, attempts at interference in this American election year and its support for the Russian war machine in Ukraine. As well as his attempts to obtain cutting-edge technologies that the United States does everything to deny him.
On this subject, Xi Jinping, who sees this as a desire to undermine Chinese technological development, made it clear to his counterpart that Beijing would not “
stay idly
” in the face of the restrictions imposed by Washington to limit exports to China of certain cutting-edge technologies, which American authorities fear could be used for military purposes.
The warning did not have much effect on the American president, who according to the White House intends to "
continue to make the necessary decisions to prevent cutting-edge American technologies from being used in ways that compromise the national security
" of the United States. United.
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