Kamala Harris has ‘brief’ meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Bangkok as tensions rise over Taiwan and North Korean missile tests
Kamala Harris has ‘brief’ meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Bangkok as tensions rise over Taiwan and North Korean missile tests
- Chinese President Xi Jinping and US Vice President Kamala Harris called for open communication during a brief meeting on Saturday
- Harris spoke to the Chinese leader as they entered a retreat in Bangkok during a summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum
- The vice president reinforced Biden’s message that ‘we must maintain open lines of communication to responsibly manage the competition between our countries’
- She added that she reiterated a message Biden gave to the Chinese Communist Party leader
- ‘We must maintain open lines of communication to responsibly manage the competition between our countries,’ Harris wrote
By AFP and STEPHEN M. LEPORE FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 22:44 EST, 18 November 2022 | UPDATED: 01:53 EST, 19 November 2022
Chinese President Xi Jinping and US Vice President Kamala Harris called for open communication during a brief meeting on Saturday, days after his extensive talks with President Joe Biden.
Harris spoke to the Chinese leader as they entered a retreat in Bangkok during a summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum, a White House official said.
The vice president tweeted a photo of her speaking to Xi, with the caption: ‘Today in Bangkok, I greeted President Xi before the APEC Leaders Retreat.
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