US and China first phone call in two years deemed constructive despite ‘negative factors’

China's president Xi Jinping and US president Joe Biden last November: Mr Biden said in a phone call on Wednesday the US would continue to take 'necessary actions to prevent advanced US technologies from being used to undermine... national security'. Photograph: Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images, artificial intelligence and climate change in a call lasting almost two hours that both sides described as candid and constructive.

The White House said Mr Biden emphasised that the US would continue to take “necessary actions to prevent advanced US technologies from being used to undermine our national security” without unduly limiting trade and investment. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said the president also expressed to Mr Xi Washington’s concerns about the Chinese-owned social media app TikTok, which is the subject of legislation that could force its sale.

China cut off military-to-military communication channels with the US after former House speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan in 2022 but they were restored after the San Francisco summit. China is co-operating with the US on halting the export of chemicals used to manufacture the synthetic drug fentanyl and the two countries will hold a dialogue in the coming weeks on regulating artificial intelligence technology.

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