BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s President Xi Jinping informed his U.S. counterpart Joe Biden that the problems of Taiwan, democracy, human rights and rights to growth are “purple strains” for China and to not be challenged, the official state media Xinhua stated on Sunday.
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Xi warned the US to not get entangled in bilateral disputes over islands and reefs within the South China Sea or “support or abet the impulsion to make provocations” in that area, it stated.
China and United States would roil and even see relations take a setback in rivalry with one another, however may make appreciable progress by treating one another as companions and buddies, Xi informed Biden on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Financial discussion board summit in Peru, in response to Xinhua.