Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping "
will have the opportunity to have an exchange in the coming weeks
," the US president's top diplomatic adviser, Jake Sullivan, told reporters on the sidelines of the G7 summit on Monday (June 27). Germany.
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Without specifying the form or the date of this future conversation, he assured that at the level of the G7 as of NATO there was "
always more convergence on the challenges
" linked to Chinese ambitions.
But Jake Sullivan also assured that "
competition does not mean confrontation
", at a time when relations between the two superpowers are extremely tense, whether about the war in Ukraine, Taiwan or economic subjects.