WASHINGTON DC: US President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping have agreed to resume high-level military communications, according to officials and reports.
According to BBC, China had severed this vital line after Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan in 2022. The US has been keen to restore it to avoid potential military clashes.
The meeting at a historic estate near San Francisco marked the first time the rival leaders have spoken in person in more than a year, BBC reported.
Relations plummeted when the US accused China of sending a spy balloon across its airspace earlier this year, but have since started improving, it said.
The world leaders were also expected to discuss the wars in Gaza and Ukraine, international trade, fentanyl trafficking, and Taiwan.
Biden says the two sides also talked about a key conflict in US-China relations.
Biden “stressed the importance of peace and stability in the Taiwan strait”, according to the report.
Biden adds that he told Xi the US does not wish to change the status quo of US-Taiwan relations, saying “that’s about the extent to which we discussed it”.
(Inputs from BBC)
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