Biden wasn’t expected to mention TikTok or the origins of COVID-19. Lately, Biden is supporting a law in Congress that would ban TikTok unless it is sold to a company that is beholden to the Chinese Communist Party.
National Security Council spokesman John Kirby is expected to ask questions about the call at a press convention later Tuesday.
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President Biden will hold a phone call with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday for the first time since July 2022, the White House announced. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
Biden last spoke to Xi in November, their first public interaction since Biden began calling Xi a “dictator” in June last year. Biden used the term after the U. S. shot down a Chinese spy shipment to the East Coast after allowing it to cross. the continental United States.
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Biden endorsed Xi as a dictator in November last year, as talks on Taiwan intensified.
Biden last spoke to Xi in November, their first public interaction since Biden began calling Xi a “dictator” in June last year. (Al Drago/Bloomberg Getty Images)
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying issued a blunt warning about friendly relations between the U. S. and Taiwan, referring to the “Taiwan factor” as “the ultimate and delicate factor in China-U. S. relations. “
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“The U. S. side deserves to take concrete steps to fulfill its promise not to achieve Taiwan independence, avoid arming Taiwan, and the nonviolent reunification of China. China wants to achieve reunification, and that is inevitable,” he wrote in an article in X.
U. S. President Joe Biden meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the G20 Leaders’ Summit in Bali, Indonesia, Nov. 14, 2022. (REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo)
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Biden has said several times in the past that the U. S. would interfere if China invaded Taiwan, but the White House has backtracked on that claim each time.
Fox News’ White House Unit contributed to this report.
Anders Hagstrom is a reporter for Fox News Digital who covers national politics and primary news events. Send to Anders. Hagstrom@Fox. com or on Twitter: @Hagstrom_Anders.