JAKARTA - President of the United States (US) Joe Biden spoke with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday, January 10 at local time. The White House said this was the first direct contact between the leaders of the world's largest economy after Joe Biden officially served as US President.
It was also the first call between Xi Jinping and the US president since the Chinese leader spoke with former President Donald Trump in March last year. Since then, relations between the two countries have fallen to their worst level in decades.
"President Joe Biden underscored his fundamental concern about Beijing's (China) coercive and unfair economic practices, the crackdown in Hong Kong, human rights abuses in Xinjiang, and the increasingly assertive action in the region, including against Taiwan", the White House said in a statement. a statement, reported by Reuters.
The White House also said President Biden and President Xi exchanged views on countering the COVID-19 pandemic, the shared challenges of global health security, climate change, and preventing weapons proliferation.
"The US president also told Xi that the United States wants to maintain a free and open Indo-Pacific", the statement read.
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