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China will ‘eat our lunch’, Biden warns after clashing with President Xi

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February 12, 2021

WASHINGTON: United States President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping held their first phone call as leaders and appeared at odds on most issues, even as Xi warned that confrontation would be a “disaster” for both nations.

While Xi has called for “win-win” cooperation, Biden has called China America’s “most serious competitor” and vowed to “out compete” Beijing. On Thursday, Biden told a bipartisan group of US senators at a meeting on the need to upgrade infrastructure, the United States must raise its game in the face of the Chinese challenge.

Biden said he spoke to Xi for two hours on Wednesday night and warned the senators: “If we don’t get moving, they are going to eat our lunch.”

“They’re investing billions of dollars dealing with a whole range of issues that relate to transportation, the environment and a whole range of other things. We just have to step up.”

The White House said Biden emphasized to Xi it was a US priority to preserve a free and open Indo-Pacific, a region where the United States and China are major strategic rivals.

He also voiced “fundamental” concerns about Beijing’s “coercive and unfair” trade practices, as well as about human rights issues, including China’s crackdown in Hong Kong and treatment of Muslims in Xinjiang, and its increasingly assertive actions in Asia, including toward Taiwan.

White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Biden also expressed concern about China’s lack of transparency over the coronavirus. All the rights issues Biden mentioned were ones Beijing has explicitly told his administration it should stay out of.

President Xi told Biden confrontation would be a “disaster” and the two sides should re-establish the means to avoid misjudgments, China’s foreign ministry said. Xi maintained a hardline tone on Hong Kong, Xinjiang and Taiwan, calling them matters of “sovereignty and territorial integrity” he hoped Washington would approach cautiously.

The Biden administration has signaled it will maintain pressure on Beijing and has endorsed a Trump administration determination that China has committed genocide in Xinjiang.

At the same time, it has pledged to take a more multilateral approach and is keen to cooperate with Beijing on issues like climate change and persuading North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons.

Biden has stressed the relationship he established with Xi when vice president under Barack Obama, through more than 24 hours of private meetings and 17,000 miles of travel together. On Thursday, he said he had a good conversation with Xi and knew him well.

Chinese officials have expressed some optimism bilateral relations will improve under Biden and have urged Washington to meet Beijing halfway. Readouts of the call from both sides mentioned areas for potential cooperation, honing in on climate change and fighting COVID-19.

China’s foreign ministry said Xi had quoted back to Biden the U.S. president’s saying that “America can be defined in one word: Possibilities”. “We hope the possibilities will now point toward an improvement of China-US relations,” it quoted Xi as saying.

 

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