U.S. President Joe Biden during a video conference meeting with Chinese President Xi JinpingBEIJING, Jul 28US President Joe Biden assured Chinese President Xi Jinping that Washington does not support separatism in Taiwan, according to the Chinese Foreign Ministry following talks between the leaders of the two countries. Earlier, the White House press pool reported that Biden and Xi Jinping's telephone conversation on Thursday lasted more than two hours. «I want to reiterate that the US position on the One China policy has not changed and will not change, the American side does not support separatism in Taiwan,» Biden said, quoted by the Chinese Foreign Ministry. He noted that Sino-American cooperation is on for the benefit of not only the peoples of the two countries, but also of all states, and «the United States hopes to maintain an unhindered dialogue with China.» «We hope to develop cooperation with China in areas of mutual interest and properly resolve all differences,» the Chinese Foreign Ministry said. />Both want and prick: Taiwan has become a bone of contention for the United StatesOfficial relations between the central government of the PRC and its island province were interrupted in 1949, after the Kuomintang forces led by Chiang Kai-shek, defeated in a civil war with the Communist Party of China, moved to Taiwan. Business and informal contacts between the island and mainland China resumed in the late 1980s. Since the early 1990s, the parties have been in contact through non-governmental organizations such as the Beijing Association for the Development of Relations across the Taiwan Strait and the Taipei Cross-Strait Exchange Fund. Reports emerged this month that Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi was preparing to visit Taiwan in August, causing sharp discontent Beijing. The Chinese Foreign Ministry said that if Pelosi visits Beijing Island, he will definitely take decisive and effective measures to protect state sovereignty and territorial integrity, and the United States will bear full responsibility for all the serious consequences arising from this. On Tuesday, Chinese Defense Ministry spokesman Tan Kefei said the Chinese army will not sit idly by if Pelosi visits Taiwan and will take decisive action to stop outside interference. Pelosi is the third most important person in the US government, according to a Defense Department official, and her visit to Taiwan would seriously violate the «one China» principle and the provisions of the three joint Sino-US communiqués.
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