Biden, Xi agree on need to avoid conflict amid growing differences

Biden, Xi agree on need to avoid conflict amid growing differences
Biden, Xi agree on need to avoid conflict amid growing differences

Biden, Xi agree on need to avoid conflict amid growing differences

United States President Joe Biden and China’s President Xi Jinping on Tuesday agreed on the need to “responsibly” manage a competitive relationship but failed to find a breakthrough on any of the thorny issues that have led to increasingly confrontational ties.

The two leaders on Tuesday morning (Monday evening in Washington) spoke for over three hours in their first virtual summit, convened from the Roosevelt Room in the White House and the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.