Chinese President Xi Jinping Says China Is Ready To Work With US

US president Joe Biden and Chinese president Xi Jinping will be holding a virtual summit next week. Exact date for the summit has not been announced yet.

Xi Jinping in 2014. (Getty Images)

New Delhi: Beijing says it is ready to bridge the gap between the United States and China. According to a report by Bloomberg, US president Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping will be holding a virtual summit next week. The exact date for the summit has not been announced yet.

During a dinner of the National Committee on US-China relations held in Washington, China’s ambassador to the US, Qin Gang read a letter. In the letter Xi had conveyed that Beijing was ready to work with the US on regional and global issues. 

At the COP 26 summit too, the US and China have declared to come together on the issue of climate this decade. As reported by Bloomberg, both the countries agreed to ensure a cut down on their emissions by tackling methane and deforestation. 

Speaking at different press conferences, China’s special climate envoy Xie Zhenhua said “we need to actively work to address climate change.” Whereas his US counterpart John Kerry said, “the US and China have no shortage of differences, but on climate cooperation is the only way to get this job done.”

The meeting is being considered as an important one as the two countries had been in a geopolitical tussle. Origin of the Covid-19 pandemic, expansion of China’s nuclear arsenal are some of the major reasons that are behind bitter relations between the two countries. Another reason is the US supporting the island nation of Taiwan which is claimed by China. 

Biden had criticized Xi for remaining absent on the global stage. Xi Jinping has not moved out of his country since the last 21 months. He did neither attend the G20 summit held in October nor participated in the COP 26 summit being held in Glasgow. 

"The fact that China, trying to assert, understandably, a new role in the world as a world leader -- not showing up? Come on," criticized Biden in Glasgow.