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Biden-Xi talks: China’s president says ‘Earth is big enough for both our countries to succeed’ | US News<\/p>\n
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China’s leader Xi Jinping has told US President Joe Biden that “planet Earth is big enough” for both their countries “to succeed”.<\/p>\n
The two leaders have met face-to-face for the first time in a year, amid strained tensions including over Taiwan, a Chinese ‘spy’ balloon<\/strong>, and hacking.<\/p>\n Mr Biden<\/strong> had billed the meeting as a chance for Washington and Beijing to get back “on a normal course” again.<\/p>\n He said on Wednesday the two economic and military superpowers had to make sure that rivalry between them “does not veer into conflict” and manage their relationship “responsibly”.<\/p>\n The pair shook hands as they held talks at a country house, prior to travelling to a summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in San Francisco, about 30 miles away.<\/p>\n Mr Biden said the goal of the talks was for the leaders to “understand each other”, while President Xi<\/strong> said they bear “heavy responsibilities” for the world.<\/p>\n “For two large countries like China<\/strong> [and the] United States<\/strong>, turning their back on each other is not an option,” Mr Xi said. “Planet Earth is big enough for the two countries to succeed.”<\/p>\n Speaking at the Filoli estate in Woodside, California, he added: “It is unrealistic for one side to remodel the other, and conflict and confrontation has unbearable consequences for both sides.”<\/p>\n Since they last met in November 2022, fraught relations have been further strained by the US downing of a Chinese ‘spy’ balloon that flew over America and by differences on the self-ruled island of Taiwan, as well as China’s hacking of a Biden official’s emails.<\/p>\n