Biden, Xi met for hours and agreed to 'pick up the phone' for any urgent concerns: 'That's progress'

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WOODSIDE, Calif. (AP) — U.S. President Joe Biden and China’s Xi Jinping emerged Wednesday from their first face-to-face meeting in a year vowing to stabilize their fraught relationship and showcasing modest agreements to combat illegal fentanyl and re-establish military communications. But there were still deep differences on economic competition and global security threats.

The most assuring takeaway from the meeting for Biden was that if either man had a concern, “we should pick up the phone and call one another and we’ll take the call. That’s important progress,” he said in a news conference following the talks.

Another positive sign: Xi signaled later Wednesday that China would send the U.S. new pandas, just a week after three from the Smithsonian National Zoo were returned to China much to the dismay of Americans. There are only four left in the United States — at the Atlanta Zoo, and their loan agreement expires next year.

The two leaders spent four hours together at a bucolic Northern California estate — in meetings, a working lunch and a garden stroll — intent on showing the world that while they are global economic competitors they’re not locked in a winner-take-all faceoff.

https://apnews.com/article/biden-xi-apec-san-francisco-58d11e7e3902955302182c2bc41430e0

[JohnSJ]

1. Yet it seems much of the media is concerned that he referred to XI as a dictator as the

main takeaway from the meeting

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Xi is more cooperative than the GOP

in Congress.