China, US chart a path forward for bilateral ties

The first face-to-face meeting between President Xi Jinping and United States President Joe Biden has charted the path for improving ties between the world's two largest economies and bringing stability and certainty to a turbulent and volatile world, officials and analysts said.

The two leaders greeted each other on Monday with a smile and a warm handshake before holding a meeting that lasted for over three hours — longer than scheduled and using simultaneous interpretation — on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Bali, Indonesia.

Xi and Biden emphasized the global implications of China-US relations, underscored the importance of establishing guiding principles for bilateral ties and said they hoped to push the relations back to a steady track from a downward spiral, State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi told a news briefing after the meeting.