Kurt Campbell, the India and Pacific Regions Coordinator of the White House National Security Council (NSC), said Washington was ready for a possible phone call between US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping. He said this during a speech he gave at the Center for New American Security in Washington. TASS.
Campbell noted that the US administration wants to keep communication channels with China open.
“We have clarified [Китаю]”They are ready for a phone call between Biden and Xi Jinping,” he said.
Earlier, Bloomberg, citing sources, said that US President Joe Biden’s National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan, last week on March 24. spent Telephone conversation with Wang Yi, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.
The story goes that Sullivan’s conversation with Wang Yi was not made public due to tensions in US-China relations.
The agency did not disclose the subject of the meeting.
Before that, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre work on the organization There is a new phone call between Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping, but there are no details about it yet.