Washington, United States—Presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping clashed in a telephone call Tuesday about US trade restrictions on technology and on Taiwan, but they looked to manage their tensions, with two top US officials heading shortly to Beijing.
“We believe that there is no substitute for regular communication at the leader level to effectively manage this complex and often tense bilateral relationship,” National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters after the call. Biden rebuffed his appeal, with the White House saying he told him “the United States will continue to take necessary actions to prevent advanced US technologies from being used to undermine our national security, without unduly limiting trade and investment.”
At the California summit, he agreed to two key tasks by the United States—curbs on precursor chemicals for making fentanyl, the synthetic painkiller behind a US overdose epidemic, and restoring dialogue between the two militaries to manage crises. China has denounced Lai, a longtime supporter of a separate identity for the self-ruling democracy claimed by Beijing, but US officials have been cautiously optimistic that China’s military moves ahead of the inauguration will not go beyond past practice.
The Biden administration, while maintaining dialogue with China, has put a strong focus on supporting allies.
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