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US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping reported that the first normal calls were held for two hours.
According to foreign media such as CNN, President Biden made the same statement on the previous day’s phone call with Xi at a meeting with some senators at the White House on the 11th (local time). President Biden said, “I spoke with President Xi last night for two hours in a row,” he said. “It was a good conversation.” “I know him well,” he explained. “We spent a lot of time together over the years when I was Vice President.” President Biden recently revealed in an interview with CBS that he had a conversation with President Xi for 24 to 25 hours when he was vice president.
President Biden spoke with Xi for the first time the night before, three weeks after taking office on the 20th of last month. It was a call made in a situation where President Biden and other senior executives expressed their thoughts of maintaining the strong economic trend of the former Donald Trump administration in China. As a reflection of this, the two leaders’ currency, which lasted for two hours, was evaluated as having a harsh battle with each other showing their core interests, let alone honeymoon, which means political honeymoon for a certain period of time at the beginning of their term. The White House said, “President Biden has emphasized fundamental concerns about China’s coercive and unfair economic practices, the repression of Hong Kong, human rights abuses in Xinjiang, and increasingly self-righteous behavior in the region, including Taiwan.” It means that China brought out issues that China is sensitive to, such as trade and human rights, and pressured President Xi. On the other hand, China Central TV said, “The issue of Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Xinjiang is Chinese internal affairs.” Told.
Foreign media evaluated this marathon call as unusual. AFP news agency said, “It is an unusually long interaction for the US president,” and said, “The US president has a face-to-face meeting rarely exceeding an hour.
In the case of China, President Biden also expressed caution that the expansion of US infrastructure investment is urgent. “If we don’t move, they (China) will eat our lunch away,” he said. To eat lunch in the United States means to win or defeat someone. “They already have a railroad that runs at 225 miles per hour (about 360 km). China is doing very hard on what we think we should do,” he said after saying that China has an important new initiative in railroads. President Biden said China is working hard in the automotive industry as well. “They are investing billions of dollars to deal with issues related to transportation, the environment and a wide range of other things.” President Biden stressed that “infrastructure is not a partisan issue of Democrats or Republicans” and “infrastructure has never been considered a partisan issue,” and urged bipartisan cooperation.
Earlier, President Biden said he would set up a task force in the Ministry of Defense to establish a defense strategy against China.
/ Reporter Kim Yeon-ha [email protected]
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