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Biden-Xi Talks a ‘Good Beginning’ to Avoid Clash, Kissinger Says

  • U.S.-China leaders must follow up with ‘concrete discussions’
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WATCH: Henry Kissinger speaks at the 2021 Bloomberg New Economy Forum in Singapore.Source: Bloomberg
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A virtual summit this week between U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping marked a “good beginning” for the world’s biggest economies to avoid a conflict, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said.

“They now have to be followed by concrete discussions that lead in a direction both presidents have affirmed they want to pursue,” the influential U.S. diplomat and author said via video on Wednesday at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum in Singapore in a conversation with Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait.