The White Home says it’s planning one other assembly between Xi Jinping and Mr. Biden

The 2 nations are in search of “extra high-level diplomacy, together with by way of a phone dialog between President Biden and President Xi,” the White Home mentioned in a press release.

The announcement got here shortly following China mentioned on Saturday that the nation’s high diplomat, Wang Yi, and US Nationwide Safety Adviser Jake Sullivan had held “honest, business-like and fruitful” talks within the Thai capital, Bangkok, through which they mentioned and Taiwan points.

Lately, Beijing and Washington have clashed over delicate points starting from know-how and commerce to human rights, in addition to island sovereignty and competing claims within the South China Sea.

US President Joe Biden met together with his Chinese language counterpart Xi Jinping in San Francisco in November in an effort to enhance relations which were described because the worst in many years, and held talks that each side described as profitable.

Wang Yi and Mr. Sullivan had “honest, business-like and fruitful strategic communication on the implementation of the consensus reached on the San Francisco assembly … and on the right decision of necessary and delicate points in China-US relations,” mentioned a press release on the web site of China’s international ministry late Saturday.

The White Home, for its half, added that this assembly between Wang Yi and Mr. Sullivan was “a part of efforts to take care of open communication and responsibly handle competitors within the relationship between the 2 nations.”