In a meeting with Biden, China's Xi cautions US to 'make the wise choice' to keep relations stable

China’s person Xi Jinping met for the past clip with President Biden connected Saturday, but was already looking up to President-elect Donald Trump and his "America first" policies, saying Beijing "is acceptable to enactment with a caller U.S. administration."

During their talks connected the sidelines of the yearly Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation acme in Peru, Xi cautioned that a unchangeable China-U.S. narration was captious not lone to the 2 nations but to the "future and destiny of humanity."

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"Make the omniscient choice," helium cautioned. "Keep exploring the close mode for 2 large countries to get on good with each other."

Without mentioning Trump’s name, Xi appeared to awesome his interest that the incoming president’s protectionist rhetoric connected the run way could nonstop the U.S.-China narration into different valley.

"China is acceptable to enactment with a caller U.S. medication to support communication, grow practice and negociate differences truthful arsenic to strive for a dependable modulation of the China-U.S. narration for the payment of the 2 peoples," Xi said done an interpreter.

President Biden shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping earlier a bilateral meeting, Saturday, successful Lima, Peru. (Leah Millis/Pool Photo via AP)

Xi, who is firmly entrenched atop China’s governmental hierarchy, spoke forcefully successful his little remarks earlier reporters. Biden, who is winding down much than 50 years of nationalist service, talked successful broader brushstrokes astir wherever the narration betwixt the 2 countries has gone.

He reflected not conscionable connected the past 4 years but connected the decades the 2 person known each other.

"We haven’t ever agreed, but our conversations person ever been candid and ever been frank. We’ve ne'er kidded 1 another," Biden said. "These conversations forestall miscalculations, and they guarantee the contention betwixt our 2 countries volition not veer into conflict."

Biden urged Xi to dissuade North Korea from further deepening its enactment for Russia’s warfare connected Ukraine. The leaders, with apical aides surrounding them, gathered astir a agelong rectangle of tables successful an expansive league country astatine a Lima hotel.

They had overmuch to discuss, including China’s indirect enactment for Russia, quality rights issues, exertion and Taiwan, the self-ruled ideology that Beijing claims arsenic its own. On artificial intelligence, the 2 agreed connected the request to support quality power implicit the determination to usage atomic weapons and much broadly amended information and planetary practice of the rapidly expanding technology.

President Joe Biden meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a bilateral meeting, Saturday, successful Lima, Peru.  (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

There’s overmuch uncertainty astir what lies up successful the U.S.-China narration nether Trump, who campaigned promising to levy 60% tariffs connected Chinese imports.

Already, galore American companies, including Nike and eyewear retailer Warby Parker, person been diversifying their sourcing distant from China. Shoe marque Steve Madden says it plans to chopped imports from China by arsenic overmuch arsenic 45% adjacent year.

In a congratulatory connection to Trump aft his triumph implicit Vice President Kamala Harris, Xi called for the U.S. and China to negociate their differences and get on successful a caller era. In beforehand of cameras Saturday, Xi spoke to Biden — but it was unmistakable that his connection was directed astatine Trump.

"In a large flourishing sci-tech revolution, neither decoupling nor proviso concatenation disruption is simply a solution," Xi said. "Only mutual, beneficial practice tin pb to communal development. ‘Small yard, precocious fence’ is not what a large state should pursue."

Biden medication officials person said they would counsel the Trump squad that managing the aggravated contention with Beijing volition apt beryllium the astir important overseas argumentation situation they volition face.

On Saturday, White House nationalist information advisor Jake Sullivan said Biden had reinforced to Xi "that these adjacent 2 months are a clip of transition" and that the president would similar to walk disconnected the U.S.-China narration "in unchangeable terms" to the caller administration.

Biden has viewed his narration with Xi arsenic among the astir consequential connected the planetary signifier and enactment overmuch effort into cultivating it. The 2 archetypal got to cognize each different connected travels crossed the U.S. and China erstwhile some were vice presidents, interactions that some person said near a lasting impression. They past met a twelvemonth agone connected the APEC sidelines successful Northern California.

Chinese President Xi Jinping meets with President Joe Biden during a bilateral meeting, Saturday, successful Lima, Peru.  (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

"For implicit a decade, you and I person spent galore hours together, some present and successful China and successful between," Biden said. "We’ve spent a agelong clip dealing with these issues."

But the past 4 years person presented a dependable watercourse of hard moments.

The FBI this week offered caller details of a national probe into Chinese authorities efforts to hack into U.S. telecommunications networks. The archetypal findings person revealed a "broad and significant" cyberespionage run aimed astatine stealing accusation from Americans who enactment successful authorities and politics.

Sullivan said Biden raised the substance with Xi during their talks and that the U.S. volition person much to accidental astir the probe successful the weeks ahead.

U.S. quality officials besides person assessed China has surged income to Russia of instrumentality tools, microelectronics and different exertion that Moscow is utilizing to nutrient missiles, tanks, craft and different weaponry for usage successful its warfare against Ukraine.

And tensions flared past twelvemonth aft Biden ordered the shooting down of a Chinese spy balloon that traversed the United States.

Biden wants Xi to measurement up Chinese engagement to forestall an already unsafe infinitesimal with North Korea from further escalating.

Biden, on with South Korean President Yoon Seok Yul and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, connected Friday condemned North Korean person Kim Jong Un’s determination to nonstop thousands of troops to assistance Moscow repel Ukrainian forces who person seized territory successful Russia’s Kursk borderline region.

White House officials person expressed vexation with Beijing, which accounts for the immense bulk of North Korea’s trade, for not doing much to rein successful Pyongyang.

The North Koreans besides person provided Russia with artillery and different munitions, according to U.S. and South Korean quality officials. And the U.S., Japan and South Korea person expressed alarm implicit Pyongyang’s stepped-up cadence of ballistic rocket tests.

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Kim ordered investigating exercises successful the lead-up to this month’s U.S. predetermination and is claiming advancement connected efforts to physique capableness to onslaught the U.S. mainland.

Xi and Biden started their time astatine the leaders’ retreat astatine the APEC summit, taking portion successful a photograph wherever they each wore scarves made from vicuña wool, a symbolic carnal for Peru. It’s communal signifier that leaders astatine these gatherings are fixed a acquisition — usually accepted covering of the big state — that they don for the photo.