Chinese President Xi Jinping expressed his willingness to “work with the new administration” of future US leader Donald Trump to “maintain communication, expand cooperation and manage differences”, while his US counterpart, Joe Biden, expressed hope that the bilateral competitive relationship “will not end in conflict.”
The two leaders spoke at the start of the bilateral meeting between Xi and Biden, who will leave the US presidency in January.
Xi Jinping calls on Trump for stable relations
Xi assured that he would like to “work for a stable transition of China-U.S. relations for the benefit of our two peoples” and hoped that the two countries would “make wise decisions and continue to explore the appropriate path for the two big countries get along.” well and achieve lasting peace and coexistence”.
Xi and Biden agreed that their bilateral relationship is the most important in the world and that these high-level talks between the two countries, the third since the US president’s term, are essential to avoid global instability.
“China’s goal is that the stable, healthy and lasting relations between China and the United States remain unchanged”
“China’s goal is that the stable, healthy and long-lasting relations between China and the United States remain unchanged,” added the Chinese president, who coincided with Biden during the two-day meeting in Lima of the leaders of the Economic Cooperation Forum. Asia-Pacific, according to EFE.
“If we see each other as rivals or adversaries, we pursue perverse competition and seek to harm each other. We’re going to burden the relationship or set it back.”said Xi, who assured that the world was facing “unprecedented challenges”.
Congratulatory call
Last Thursday, the Chinese president called Trump to congratulate him on his victory and ask that relations between the two powers be “stable, healthy and lasting.”
Biden, who will hand over power to President-elect Trump in January after the Republican won the election 11 days ago, provided an update on his relationship with Xi.
“We haven’t always agreed, but our conversations have always been frank”
“We have not always agreed, but our conversations have always been frank,” he said from the meeting room at the Delfines hotel in Lima. This is the third and final bilateral meeting between Biden and Xi.
“These talks anticipate miscalculations and ensure that competition between our two countries does not lead to conflict. This is our responsibility to our people and to the rest of the world,” Biden said.
The US president highlighted the progress made with Beijing in communication at a high-level military level, in the fight against drug trafficking as well as in security and the development of artificial intelligence (AI).
They agree that the use of nuclear weapons should not be under the control of AI.
During their meeting, Biden and Xi agreed on “the need to maintain human control over the decision to use nuclear weapons,” when discussing possible uses of artificial intelligence (AI) to Lima.
“Both leaders affirmed the need to maintain human control over the decision to use nuclear weapons,” says the information released by the White House about a bilateral meeting they held in Lima after their participation at the APEC Leaders’ Meeting.
The conversation was based on a “frank and constructive dialogue on AI”, in which “the two leaders affirmed the need to face the risks of artificial intelligence systems” and to find formulas for their security.
Biden and Xi also stressed “the need to carefully consider potential risks and develop AI technology in the military domain in a careful and responsible manner.”
This issue was one of the topics discussed during the bilateral meeting between Biden and Xi in Lima and which, in the opinion of the White House national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, constitutes one of the most tangible results of this third dialogue between the two leaders. which lasted about an hour and 40 minutes in the Peruvian capital.
“We have to start somewhere, with basic principles, and build from there based on the need to develop a common basis for reducing nuclear risk. A good starting point is the direct proposition that there must be control human in decisions on the use of nuclear weapons,” Sullivan said.
“I’m not saying that someone was going to imminently cede control of nuclear weapons to artificial intelligence,” Sullivan said, emphasizing that it was a step “in the right direction” in terms of mitigation, because there is a “long-term strategic risk” for two countries with “significant AI capabilities”.
