WASHINGTON, D.C.: The United States and China agreed Friday to work towards setting up a meeting between the two countries' leaders next month, American officials said after President Joe Biden met Beijing's top diplomat at the White House.
Biden has invited Xi Jinping to San Francisco in November for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, amid tense relations with China. Xi has not yet confirmed he will come.After Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi held talks with Biden and other senior US officials in Washington, the White House said both countries had agreed to keep up 'high-level diplomacy' to try to smooth ties.
US officials had 'expressed our deep concern with the situation and pressed China to take a more constructive approach' including talking to its allies there, the senior administration official added.The White House released a photo of Biden and Wang shaking hands. Journalists were not allowed in to the meeting, at which Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan were also present.
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