Biden and China’s President Xi Jinping speak for first time since California summit
President Joe Biden and Chinese president Xi Jinping have spoken by phone, their first telephone conversation since 2022 and their first interaction since the two leaders met outside San Francisco for a summit meeting in November 2023.
A White House readout of the conversation described it as “a candid and constructive discussion on a range of bilateral, regional, and global issues, including areas of cooperation and areas of difference” and said Strait and the rule of law and freedom of navigation in the South Sea”.
