Chinese President Xi Jinping has arrived in the United States for his first visit in six years, after US President Joe Biden said his goal in their bilateral talks this week was to restore normal communications with Beijing, including military-to-military contacts.
We're not trying to decouple from China. What we're trying to do is change the relationship for the better, Biden told reporters at the White House before heading to San Francisco. Asked what he hoped to achieve at the meeting, he said he wanted to get back on a normal course of corresponding; being able to pick up the phone and talk to one another if there's a crisis; being able to make sure our [militaries] still have contact with one another.
China, which regularly talks about red lines on issues such as the self-ruled island Taiwan, which it claims as its own and its expansive claims in the South China Sea...
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