The leaders shook hands and strolled in a garden at a historic California estate during four-hour talks aimed at preventing growing tensions between the world's largest economies from spiraling into conflict.
The United States would compete 'vigorously' but 'responsibly' with an increasingly assertive China 'so it doesn't veer into conflict or accidental conflict,' he added. 'He and I agreed that each one of us could pick up the phone, call directly and we'll be heard immediately,'
But Xi and Biden remained far apart on the wider flashpoint of Taiwan, with the Chinese president telling his US counterpart to stop arming the island and saying that reunification was 'unstoppable.'
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