‘Planet Earth is big enough’: Biden, Xi vow to ease tensions
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Woodside (United States) (AFP) – US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping shook hands and pledged to reduce soaring tensions between the superpowers Wednesday as they met for the first time in a year at a high-stakes summit in California. “We have to ensure that competition does not veer into conflict,” Biden told Xi across a long wooden table as their delegations sat down for talks at the scenic Filoli country estate near San Francisco. Xi responded by saying that “Planet Earth is big enough for the two countries to succeed.” The leaders of the World’s largest economies have n…