{"id":11032,"date":"2021-01-21T01:40:34","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T01:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3118611\/biden-recalls-telling-chinas-xi-jinping-us-about-possibilities"},"modified":"2021-01-21T01:40:34","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T01:40:34","slug":"biden-recalls-telling-chinas-xi-jinping-the-us-is-about-possibilities-before-swearing-in-appointees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/21\/biden-recalls-telling-chinas-xi-jinping-the-us-is-about-possibilities-before-swearing-in-appointees\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden recalls telling China\u2019s Xi Jinping the US is about \u2018possibilities\u2019 before swearing in appointees"},"content":{"rendered":"US President Joe Biden referenced a conversation with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, when both were vice-presidents, during one of his first official acts in his new role on Wednesday.\u201cI was asked a long time ago when I was with Xi Jinping, and I was on the Tibetan plateau with him,\u201d Biden said as he was administering an oath of office \u2013 virtually \u2013 to nearly 1,000 of his appointees. Xi \u201casked me in a private dinner, he and I, and we each had an interpreter. He said can you define America\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3118611\/biden-recalls-telling-chinas-xi-jinping-us-about-possibilities\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Joe Biden referenced a conversation with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, when both were vice-presidents, during one of his first official acts in his new role on Wednesday.\u201cI was asked a long time ago when I was with Xi Jinping, and I &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1008,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11032"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1008"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11033,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11032\/revisions\/11033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}