U.S. President Joe Biden talked with media on July 20, 2022, after disembarking Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland.
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BEIJING– U.S. President Joe Biden stated he anticipates to speak to Chinese President Xi Jinping by the end of the month.
He did not elaborate on factors for the call or prepared subjects of conversation. China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not right away react to an ask for remark.
The 2 leaders last spoke in March, primarily about Russia’s intrusion ofUkraine China has actually declined to call the attack an intrusion.
” I believe I’ll be speaking to President Xi within the next 10 days,” Biden informed press reporters Wednesday Eastern time, according to a White House records.
When asked whether he believed Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi need to check out Taiwan this summertime, Biden stated: “The military believes it’s not a great concept today, however I do not understand what the status of it is.”
The Financial Times today reported, mentioning sources, that Pelosi prepared to take a delegation to Taiwan in August– the very first see by somebody in her position in 25 years.
China alerted it would take “strong and undaunted procedures” if such a journey were to happen, Foreign Ministry representative Zhao Lijian stated at a press instruction.
Taiwan is a democratically self-ruled island that Beijing thinks about part of its area. China has actually preserved it looks for serene reunification with Taiwan.
