China's Xi warns Biden over Taiwan, calls for cooperation

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By JOE McDONALD

BEIJING (AP) — President Xi JInping warned against meddling in China’s dealings with Taiwan during a phone call with his U.S. counterpart, Joe Biden, that gave no indication of progress on trade, technology or other irritants, including Beijing’s opposition to a top American lawmaker’s possible visit to the island democracy, which the mainland claims as its own territory.

Xi also warned against splitting the world’s two biggest economies, according to a Chinese government summary of Thursday’s unusually lengthy, three-hour call. Businesspeople and economists warn such a change, brought on by Chinese industrial policy and U.S. curbs on technology exports, might hurt the global economy by slowing innovation and increasing costs.

Meanwhile, Xi and Biden are looking at the possibility of meeting in person, according to a U.S. official who declined to be identified further. Xi has been invited to Indonesia in November for a meeting of the Group of 20 major economies, making it a potential location for a face-to-face meeting.

The Chinese government gave no indication Xi and Biden discussed possible plans by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to visit Taiwan, which the ruling Communist Party says has no right to conduct foreign relations. But Xi rejected “interference by external forces” that might encourage Taiwan to try to make its decades-old de facto independence permanent.



FILE - This combination image shows U.S. President Joe Biden in Washington, Nov. 6, 2021, and China's President Xi Jinping in Brasília, Brazil, Nov. 13, 2019. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Eraldo Peres, File)


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[Tetrachloride]

1. Uighers, Tibet, Tienanmen Square, Cultural Revolution

Famine.

Taiwan National Day https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Day_of_the_Republic_of_China

October 10

[oldsoftie]

2. And the US & EU fund that arrogance. Get out of China NOW.

[AZLD4Candidate]

3. Let me translate this for all those that don't speak Chinese intentions (lived there for 12 years)

"You keep out of our business because we want cooperation. But you will cooperate with our aims and goals and if you don't, I will whine and company and use the Chinese people as a front to mask that I am pissed. Oh, and I can change my mind on anything at any time without telling you because This is China and you must agree to it because we are never wrong. And if we are wrong, it's because you hate us and don't understand us."