U.S. President Joe Biden will hold a call on Friday with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, as Washington piles pressure on China to not support Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a step that would dramatically widen the gulf between Beijing and Western governments, APA reports quoting Reuters.
The call, announced by the White House on Thursday, comes at a pivotal moment in U.S.-China relations and in Ukraine, where heavily outnumbered local forces have prevented Moscow from capturing any of the country’s biggest cities so far.