- विज्ञापन -
Washington DC: The United States and China are planning a phone call between President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping “in the coming weeks”, the White House said on Thursday.
The call, likely to be held prior to the US presidential elections this November, was discussed between Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan and China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi during their two-day meeting in Yanqi Lake, Beijing on August 27-28.
The White House also said the two countries will also aim to organize a phone conversation between military theatre commanders “in the near future.”
The two leaders had met in California in November 2023 termed as the Woodside Summit.
During Sullivan and Wang’s meeting, the two sides held candid, substantive, and constructive discussions on a range of bilateral, regional, and global issues.
Sullivan and Wang noted the importance of the strategic channel of communication over the past 18 months and committed to maintaining high-level diplomacy and working level consultations on an ongoing basis, the White House said.
The two also discussed progress and next steps on implementation of the Woodside Summit commitments, including counternarcotics, military-to-military communications, and Artificial Intelligence safety and risk.
The top US and Chinese diplomats discussed next steps to reduce the flow of illicit synthetic drugs, continue repatriation of undocumented migrants, and law enforcement cooperation.
