“The U.S. will compete vigorously … keeping the lines of communication open and ensuring that competition does not escalate into conflict,” the White House said in a statement.
US communication channels with China will remain open to avoid a conflict, the US president told Asian leaders today Joe Biden.
Addressing the East Asia Summit in Cambodia, Biden said the US would compete with China and speak openly about its human rights record, but stressed the importance of peace in the Taiwan Strait and ensuring free navigation in the South China Sea.
Biden also condemned the “brutal and unjust” invasion of Ukraine and North Korea’s threats of missile tests, the White House said, and called on Myanmar’s military regime to follow the peace plan agreed with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. (ASEAN).
As for China, Biden told the summit that “the US will compete vigorously…by keeping the lines of communication open and ensuring that competition does not escalate into conflict,” the White House said in a statement.
The Southeast Asian region is also hosting the Group of 20 (G20) summit in Bali, Indonesia this week, ahead of which Biden will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping for the first time since taking over the US presidency.
The war in Ukraine is expected to dominate talks in Bali and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in Bangkok later this week, as well as climate commitments, food security and tensions across the Taiwan Strait, South China Sea and North Korea’s missile launches.
Eighteen countries accounting for half of the global economy participated in today’s East Asia Summit, including ASEAN member countries Japan, South Korea, China, India, the US, Russia, Australia and New Zealand.
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