Biden And Xi Reiterated Their Agreement That Nuclear War Must Never Be Fought

US President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping agreed in talks Monday that nuclear weapons should never be used, including in Ukraine, House White said. 

President Biden and President Xi reiterated their agreement that  nuclear war must never be fought and can never be won, and underscored their opposition to the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine," he said in a statement. 

The two held their first face-to-face talks since Biden took  office on the sidelines of a G20 meeting expected to be dominated by the war in Ukraine. 

The pair shook hands early in the meeting, and Biden said the superpowers have a shared  responsibility to show the world  they can "manage our differences and prevent competition from turning into conflict." 

The White House said it informed Xi that Washington "will continue to compete vigorously with China" but that "this competition should not become a conflict".

Biden objected to China's "increasingly aggressive and coercive measures towards Taiwan," adding that they "undermine peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait and  the wider region," the White House said after three hours of talks on conflict avoidance. between  rival superpowers. And he told Xi that the world should encourage North Korea to act "responsibly" after Pyongyang had a record string of missile launches  and growing fears of a new nuclear test meeting in , according to the ad. 

The White House, including Beijing's "non-commercial economic practices" and practices in "Xinjiang, Tibet and Hong Kong, and human rights in general". Biden previously said  he was determined to keep lines of communication open, at the personal and state levels.

As  leaders of our two nations, I believe we have a shared responsibility to show that China and the United States can manage our differences, prevent competition from becoming conflict, and  find ways to respond to pressing global issues." to work together". Matters that require our mutual cooperation,” Biden told reporters.

 US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to China to follow up  the talks, the White House said. US equivalent of not crossing Beijing's "red line" on the island of Taiwan. Crossed paths in China-US relations," Xi Biden reportedly said after the talks, state news agency Xinhua said. 

In a statement, Beijing's foreign ministry said Xi told Biden  the world was "big enough" for both of its countries to  prosper and that they share "more, not less" interests.

"Under the current circumstances, China and the United States have more, not less, common interests," Xi told Biden, adding that Beijing is not trying to challenge the United States or "change the existing international order" and demanded both sides  "respect each other". 

The two leaders are also said to have discussed the situation in Ukraine, with Xi  Biden saying Beijing is "deeply concerned" about the conflict. continue to promote peace talks," the Chinese leader reportedly said. "We support and look forward to the resumption of peace talks between Russia and Ukraine."