Chinese President Xi Jinping and then-Vice President Joe Biden share a laugh during a meeting in 2012. US spy agencies in August assessed that it’s “plausible” that the virus leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, but China has refused to cooperate with an independent international investigation. China is a top manufacturer of illicit fentanyl responsible for increased US drug overdose deaths.Īsked about “next steps” in the US-China relationship, Sullivan noted questions about the origins of COVID-19. White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said Tuesday morning at a Brookings Institution event that Biden and Xi additionally discussed territorial disputes in the South China Sea and “counter-narcotics” issues. The readout didn’t mention the coronavirus, nor did a subsequent late-night White House background call for reporters.
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But the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic that has killed more than 762,000 Americans apparently did not make the list.Ī White House release said the men discussed trade, human rights, Afghanistan, Iran, North Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Tibet, Xinjiang, “a free and open Indo-Pacific,” “health security,” “the climate crisis” and “global energy supplies.” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said President Biden not considering President Xi Jinping an old friend “remains consistent.” Shutterstock Hours before Biden and Xi spoke Monday, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said when reminded of the June exchange that Biden “still does not consider an ‘old friend,’ so that remains consistent.”īiden and Xi’s virtual summit lasted about 3 1/2 hours and covered more than a dozen major topics, the White House said. It’s just pure business.” Then-Vice President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping toast during a state luncheon in 2015. “Let’s get something straight,” Biden said at the time. Xi opened the virtual summit Monday by telling Biden during brief public remarks, “I’m very happy to see my old friend.”īiden became testy in June when Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy suggested the two speak “old friend to old friend” to get to the bottom of the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. But he does not consider President Xi an old friend.” “But like you just mentioned, you’ve heard explicitly from the president himself that he has a longstanding relationship with President Xi, they spent a great deal of time together, they are able to have candid discussions and be direct with each other, which helps them be productive. “I’m not going to speak for President Xi,” Bates said. The White House on Tuesday insisted that President Biden is not an “old friend” of Chinese President Xi Jinping - despite Xi saying so at a virtual summit Monday in what’s being seen as an opening dig to undermine Biden.īiden has denied in the past that he’s a friend of the Communist leader, despite often warmly recounting their interactions during his vice presidency.Ī Bloomberg News reporter asked White House spokesman Andrew Bates during an Air Force One gaggle whether “President Xi was trying to in some way undermine the US” with his use of the term.
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