The two presidents spoke for nearly three hours in what was their sixth conversation in the last two years, but their first in person.
both opposed saber-rattling and the use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine, the president of the United States said Monday after a lengthy meeting with his Chinese counterpart.
Following their first face-to-face summit since the Democrat was elected president two years ago, Biden said at a news conference in Bali that he and Xi had an"open and candid" conversation about each other's intentions and priorities. The three-hour talks on the sidelines of the G20 summit in the Indonesian resort were scheduled with the aim of ensuring the intense U.S.-China rivalry doesn't spiral out of control.
Above, President Joe Biden and President Xi Jinping of China shake hands as they meet on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Nusa Dua on the Indonesian island of Bali on November 14, 2022. Biden and Xi agreed during their talk that nuclear weapon use in Ukraine would be"unacceptable.
"We discussed Russia's aggression against Ukraine [and] reaffirmed our shared belief that the threat or the use of nuclear weapons is totally unacceptable," Biden said, in a nod to concerns that the Kremlin could turn toA White House readout said Biden and Xi"reiterated their agreement that a nuclear war should never be fought and can never be won and underscored their opposition to the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine.
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