US President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping have reached an agreement to resume communications between their countries’ militaries at a summit in San Francisco designed to stabilise relations after several years of rising concern about possible conflict over Taiwan.
At a press conference on Wednesday following his meeting with Xi, Biden said the two countries had reached a series of agreements, including a commitment from China to reopen the communication channels between the two militaries that Beijing shut down after then US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan in August 2022.
China also agreed in principle to crack down on the export to Mexico of chemicals used to make fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that has sparked a deadly drug epidemic in America.