After a face-to-face meeting in Bali, Indonesia, President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged Monday morning to cooperate on issues including the fight against climate change, protecting global health and safeguarding access to food.
"President Biden underscored that the United States and China must work together to address transnational challenges – such as climate change, global macroeconomic stability including debt relief, health security, and global food security – because that is what the international community expects," stated a readout from
Monday's announcement also comes at a crucial moment in the struggle to limit climate change. Almost every nation in the world is currently represented at the United Nations climate change conference, known as COP27, in Sharm-el Sheikh, Egypt. Whenon Friday, he touted his record of accomplishment on combating climate change and laid out a series of small new steps the U.S. will take, including the implementation of new rules to limit methane pollution.
U.S. environmental activists nonetheless praised the U.S. and China for meeting and attempting to set aside their differences.