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Lima, Peru – 16 November 2024
1. U.S. President Joe Biden greets China’s President Xi Jinping
2. Zoom in and pan from Xi Jinping to Joe Biden
3. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Xi Jinping, President of China:
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"China is ready to work with a new U.S. administration to maintain communication, expand cooperation and manage differences so as to strive for a steady transition of the China-U.S. relationship for the benefit of the two peoples."
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Joe Biden, U.S. President:
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"These conversations prevent miscalculations, and they ensure the competition between our two countries will not veer into conflict. Competition, not conflict. That’s our responsibility to our people. And as you indicated, to the people around the world, we are the most important alliance or most important relationship in the entire world. And how we get along together could impact the rest of the world."
5. Wide of meeting
STORYLINE:
China’s leader Xi Jinping met for the last time with U.S. President Joe Biden but was already looking ahead to President-elect Donald Trump and his “America first” policies, saying Beijing “is ready to work with a new administration.”
The two leaders gathered Saturday on the sidelines of the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit.
Biden was expected to urge Xi to dissuade North Korea from further deepening its support for Russia’s war on Ukraine.
Without mentioning Trump’s name, Xi appeared to signal his concern that the incoming president’s protectionist rhetoric on the campaign trail could send the U.S.-China relationship into another valley.
“China is ready to work with a new U.S. administration to maintain communication, expand cooperation and manage differences so as to strive for a steady transition of the China-U.S. relationship for the benefit of the two peoples,” Xi said through an interpreter.
There’s much uncertainty about what lies ahead in the U.S.-China relationship under Trump, who campaigned promising to levy 60% tariffs on Chinese imports.
Biden, who is winding down more than 50 years of public service, talked in broader brushstrokes about where the relationship between the two countries has gone.
He reflected not just on the past four years but on the decades the two have known each other.
“We haven’t always agreed, but our conversations have always been candid and always been frank. We’ve never kidded one another,” Biden said. “These conversations prevent miscalculations, and they ensure the competition between our two countries will not veer into conflict.”
Biden has viewed his relationship with Xi as among the most consequential on the international stage and put much effort into cultivating it.
The two first got to know each other on travels across the U.S. and China when both were vice presidents, interactions that both have said left a lasting impression.
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