(220318) -- BEIJING, March 18, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping has a video call with U.S. President Joe Biden at the latter's request in Beijing, capital of China, March 18, 2022. (Xinhua/Liu Bin) (Photo by Xinhua/Sipa USA)
CHINA-BEIJING-XI JINPING-US-JOE BIDEN-VIDEO CALL (CN)
WASHINGTON (77 WABC) — President Joe Biden and China’s Xi Jinping spoke Friday for nearly two hours via a video call as the White House looks to deter Beijing from providing military or economic assistance for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. China’s Foreign Ministry was the first to issue a readout of the conversation, deploring “conflict and confrontation” as “not in anyone’s interest,” without assigning any blame to Russia. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying in a Twitter message called the U.S. position “overbearing.”
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