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By Vivian Salama, CNN

Updated 1619 GMT (0019 HKT) February 11, 2021

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(CNN) — President Joe Biden spoke with China's President Xi Jinping for two hours late
Wednesday, their first call since Biden took o ce.

"Last night, I was on the phone for two straight hours with Xi Jinping," Biden said Thursday as he
met with a bipartisan group of senators to discuss infrastructure in the Oval O ce.

"And you all know as well as I do, these folks -- and it was a good conversation I know him well
we've spent a lot of time together over the years I was vice president. But, you know, if we don't Advertisement

get moving, they're going to eat our lunch," he added, outlining China's e orts to invest in rail
and other transportation.

The introductory call between the leaders of the world's two largest economies touched upon a
range of issues against the backdrop of escalating tensions between the two countries.

Biden prioritized economic and military issues, and mentioned potential areas of cooperation,
including climate change and nuclear proliferation, while calling China out on a range of issues
related to its nefarious use of technology, unfair trade and human rights abuses, the senior
o cial said.

The o cial said prior to the call that Biden would also call Xi out on human rights abuses of
China's Muslim minority Uyghurs and hostile actions toward Hong Kong.

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Biden planned to "indicate that this isn't just about American values, it's about universal values,"
the senior o cial said before the phone call.

A White House readout of the call released Wednesday evening said Biden "a rmed his
priorities of protecting the American people's security, prosperity, health, and way of life, and
preserving a free and open Indo-Pacific."

Biden, the readout added, "underscored his fundamental concerns about Beijing's coercive and
unfair economic practices, crackdown in Hong Kong, human rights abuses in Xinjiang, and
increasingly assertive actions in the region, including toward Taiwan."

The administration is planning a sweeping review of

B I D E N ' S F I R S T 1 0 0 D AY S
the Trump administration's posture toward China,

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including its crackdown on unfair trade practices and
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Biden announces Pentagon task force
to review China strategy acknowledging pursuing a robust Indo-Pacific strategy,
Biden's 100-day plan to reopen schools according to an administration o cial. This means
meets with a messy reality
embracing China where possible, while calling it out in
other matters, such as its human rights abuses.

One thing that will remain in place is the Trump administration's tari s on China.

"We have maintained the tari s that were laid down over the course of the past few years, not
because we think that that trade war was particularly successful, but rather because we believe
that we have to very carefully, in consultation with allies and partners, in consultation with the
Congress, work through the sources of leverage we have," the senior o cial said. PA I D C O N T E N T BY

Administration o cials have also condemned China's attacks on pro-democracy protesters in

Hong Kong. Last week, the US Navy also sent a guided-missile destroyer through the Taiwan
Strait, the first time during the Biden administration a US warship has gone through the
waterway that separates China and Taiwan.

The o cial said that the Biden administration found "deep problems" with the way in which the
Trump administration had approached competition with China, and it is one of the issues they [Foto's] Een vrouw van 96 jaar
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Biden announced Wednesday that the Department of Defense has established a task force
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focused on US strategy toward China.

"Today I was briefed on a new DoD-wide China task force that Secretary Austin is standing up to
look at our strategy and operational concepts, technology and force posture and so much
more," the President said as he visited the Pentagon for the first time since he was inaugurated. Cara and Poppy De salarissen van
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"It will require a whole government e ort, bipartisan cooperation in Congress, and strong
alliances and partnerships. That's how we'll meet the China challenge and ensure the American
people win the competition of the future," Biden said.

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Biden "obviously spent a lot of time with Xi Jinping over the years although this will be their first
leader-to-leader call," the senior o cial said before the call.

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