{"id":1017320,"date":"2021-11-15T22:58:59","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T03:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1017320"},"modified":"2021-11-15T22:59:02","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T03:59:02","slug":"joe-biden-does-not-mention-coronavirus-in-opening-remarks-with-old-friend-xi-jinping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-does-not-mention-coronavirus-in-opening-remarks-with-old-friend-xi-jinping\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden Does Not Mention Coronavirus in Opening Remarks with &#039;Old Friend&#039; Xi Jinping"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjoe-biden-does-not-mention-coronavirus-in-opening-remarks-with-old-friend-xi-jinping%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1017320&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Biden-Virtual-Conference-with-Xi-Jinping-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">President Joe Biden made no mention of the coronavirus pandemic on Monday during his opening remarks at a video conference meeting with Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m happy we\u2019ve found time to meet, and I look forward to candid and forthright discussions like all the discussions we\u2019ve had thus far,\u201d Biden said, adding that&nbsp;\u201cwe never walk away wondering what the other man is thinking.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The president told Xi he would raise areas of concern for the United States, on issues \u201cfrom human rights, to economics, and a free and open Indo-Pacific\u201d as well as \u201cclimate change,\u201d but he did not mention the coronavirus pandemic once during his opening remarks.<\/p>\n<p>Biden noted during the meeting that he and Xi had a long history of spending time together.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe I should start more formally, even though you and I have never been that formal with one another,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Biden proposed setting up \u201cguardrails\u201d for both countries to make sure they did not end up conflicting with one another.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt seems to me our responsibility as leaders of China and the United States is to ensure the competition between our countries does not veer into conflict, whether intended or unintended,\u201d Biden continued. \u201cJust simple straightforward competition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He noted that the United States would continue to stand up for global values.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNone of this is a favorite of each of our countries, what we do for one another, but it is just responsible world leadership and you\u2019re a major world leader and so is the United States,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The president was joined by Secretary of State Tony Blinken, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and, National Security advisor Jake Sullivan.&nbsp;The press was allowed by the White House to witness the opening remarks from the two leaders before the meeting continued.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>President Xi spoke warmly of President Joe Biden during his opening remarks of the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the first time for us to meet virtually. Although it is not as good as a face-to-face meeting, I\u2019m very happy to see my old friend,\u201d Xi said via a translator.<\/p>\n<p>Xi has not left China for more than 600 days since his last trip in January 2020, but he proposed a virtual meeting in response to a Biden request for a personal meeting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now both China and the United States are at critical stages of global development and humanity lives in a global village, and we face multiple challenges together,\u201d Xi said.<\/p>\n<p>Xi said that as the two largest economies of the world, China and the United States \u201cneed to increase communication and cooperation\u201d going forward, particularly on issues of \u201cclimate change\u201d and the \u201cCOVID pandemic\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChina and the United States should respect each other, co-exist in peace, and pursue win-win cooperation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden made no mention of the coronavirus pandemic on Monday during his opening remarks at a video conference meeting with Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping. \u201cI\u2019m happy &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1017320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}