{"id":36692,"date":"2021-09-10T13:24:12","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T04:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/10\/joe-biden-xi-jinping-us-china-phone-call-veer-conflict"},"modified":"2021-09-10T21:39:06","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T12:39:06","slug":"biden-tells-xi-us-and-china-must-not-veer-into-conflict-in-first-call-for-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36692","title":{"rendered":"Biden tells Xi US and China must not \u2018veer into conflict\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>White House says leaders agree to engage \u2018openly and straightforwardly\u2019 amid US frustration at lack of progress in relations<\/p>\n<p>Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, have spoken in their first phone call for seven months, amid continuing tensions between the world\u2019s two largest economies.<\/p>\n<p>During the 90-minute call, which was initiated by the US president, the two leaders discussed their shared responsibility to ensure competition does not \u201cveer into conflict\u201d, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2021\/09\/09\/readout-of-president-joseph-r-biden-jr-call-with-president-xi-jinping-of-the-peoples-republic-of-china\/\">readout<\/a> from the White House.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/10\/joe-biden-xi-jinping-us-china-phone-call-veer-conflict\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House says leaders agree to engage \u2018openly and straightforwardly\u2019 amid US frustration at lack of progress in relationsJoe Biden and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, have spoken in their first phone call for seven months, amid continuing tensi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,939,47,631,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-joe-biden","category-us-news","category-us-politics","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36692"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36817,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36692\/revisions\/36817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}