The President of the United States, Joe Biden, and the President of China, Xi Jinping, will talk “in the course of the next few weeks”, but not immediately after the G7 summitWhite House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said Monday.
Meanwhile, the diplomatic chiefs of the United States and China are planning meetings on the sidelines of next month’s G-20 ministerial meeting in Bali, Indonesia, according to diplomatic sources.
Sullivan told reporters that there is an “urgent need” for consultations between G-7 members and NATO to address the challenges China poses, as it seeks “alignment among the world’s leading market democracies to tackle some of those challenges.” challenges, in particular, China’s non-trade economic practices, its approach to debt, and its approach to human rights.”
The leaders of the NATO countries will meet in Madrid at the end of this week. US officials and analysts say discussing the PRC’s approaches is high on the agenda as NATO is expected to certify this year its new Strategic Concept, the organization’s most important working document after the North Atlantic Treaty of 1949. The last Strategic Concept was agreed in 2010.
NATO’s Strategic Concept “will speak in an unprecedented way to the challenge posed by China,” Sullivan said Monday, adding that competition between the United States and China “does not mean confrontation or conflict,” a notion China has rejected.
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