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BEIJING, November 14  (TMTPOST)— The leadership of China and United States move forward to improvement of bilateral relationship as a high-level talk took place ahead of the G20 Summit.

Source: the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China

China’s President Xi Jinping met with his U.S. counterpart Joe Biden on the after of November 14 in Bali, Indonesia. The current state of Sino-U.S. relations is not in the fundamental interests of the two countries and peoples, nor is what the international community expects, so the two countries “need to explore the right way to get along with each in the new era, put the relationship on the right course, and bring it back to the track of healthy and stable growth to the benefit of the two countries and the world as a whole”, Xi noted in the opening of the meeting, the first offline meet with Biden since the Covid-19 pandemic.

Xi pointed out China-U.S. relations should not be a zero-sum game where one side out-competes or thrives at the expense of the other, and the duo should respect each other, coexist in peace, pursue win-win cooperation, and work together to ensure that bialteral relations move forward on the right course without losing momentum. Observing the basic norms of international relations and the three Sino-U.S. joint communiqués is vitally important for the two sides to manage differences and disagreements and prevent confrontation and conflict, Xi said. While admitting the long standing difference on economic and political systems that China and U.S. take, Xi noted it is vital for each country to recognize and respect such difference, and neither side should seek to change or even subvert the other’s system.

Both China’s Foreign Ministry and the White House commented the leaders’ dialogue a candid one.  In his first face-to-face talk with Xi since he took into office as the President, Biden said he and Xi shared a responsibility “to show that China and the United States can manage our differences, prevent competition from becoming anything ever near conflict, and to find ways to work together on urgent global issues that require our mutual cooperation”.

Biden reiterated the continuing vigorous competition between U.S. and China “should not veer into conflict”, and underscored that the two sides must manage the competition responsibly and maintain open lines of communication, according to a White House readout of his remarks. As to Taiwan issue, which Xi stressed as essence of China’s core interests, Biden said the United States has not changed its one China policy and the world has an interest in the maintenance of peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait.

“I absolutely believe there need not be a new Cold War,” Biden told reporters after the three-hour talk, “We’re going to compete vigorously, but I’m not looking for conflict. I’m looking to manage this competition responsibly.”

During the talk, Xi and Biden instructed their teams to promptly follow up and implement the important common understandings reached between them, according to China’s Foreign Ministry. Biden later that day told reporter that he and Xi had agreed to further discussions among key officials, and Secretary of State Antony Blinken is set to visit China sometime early next year.