{"id":39837,"date":"2021-09-10T00:10:52","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T07:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=39837"},"modified":"2021-09-10T18:11:19","modified_gmt":"2021-09-11T01:11:19","slug":"biden-and-xi-have-a-chat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=39837","title":{"rendered":"Biden and Xi have a chat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/atksrvbzlmmncvcmnyhllnsslbngmbmwwplzvtgmksbhdk_ggrcrrgygdctgcgwnnwr.html?a=&amp;b=42188\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/atksrvbzlmmncvcmnyhllnsslbngmbmwwplzvtgmksbhdk_ggrcrrgygdctgcgwnnwr.html?a%3D%26b%3D42188&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1631395242712000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGGKiZlKrf2Qq3SeAwoSq147wPPLA\">President Biden<\/a>\u00a0spoke with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday amid mounting tensions between the two nations in recent months.<\/p>\n<p>Biden initiated the call, just the second between the two leaders since he took office and the first in seven months. The call was less focused on hot-button issues and more on mending the U.S.-Chinese relationship.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The two leaders had a broad, strategic discussion in which they discussed areas where our interests converge, and areas where our interests, values, and perspectives diverge,\u201d the White House said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Biden addressed cybersecurity issues during the call,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/mbcsmzwgpccljzjcltnpplsspwlvcwckkdpgzbvcqswnyy_ggrcrrgygdctgcgwnnwr.html?a=&amp;b=42188\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/mbcsmzwgpccljzjcltnpplsspwlvcwckkdpgzbvcqswnyy_ggrcrrgygdctgcgwnnwr.html?a%3D%26b%3D42188&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1631395242712000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFn6uoprPds7UaU3izvNElUbTAD2Q\">according to CNN<\/a>, an issue that has been a main source of tension.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden\u00a0spoke with Chinese President Xi&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39838,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39837\/revisions\/39838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}