'Those who play with fire will perish by it.' 9News
President Joe Biden and China's Xi Jinping spent more than two hours Thursday talking through the future of their complicated relationship, with the flashpoint of Taiwan once again emerging as a key point of tension.
As usual, China left no doubt that it blames the US for the deteriorating relationship between the two countries. Beijing has said it would view such a trip as a provocation, a threat US officials are taking with heightened seriousness in light of Russia's incursion into Ukraine. John Kirby, a US national security spokesman, said Wednesday that it was important for Biden and Xi to regularly touch base.
He also wants to marshal global democracies to support infrastructure investments in low- and middle-income nations as an alternative to China's "Belt and Road Initiative," which aims to boost China's trade with other global markets.
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