First Thing: Biden and Xi warn each other over future of Taiwan

China's president tells US counterpart that support for Taiwan independence is like playing with fire'. Plus, the world's first TikTopera'

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During a virtual summit China's president told Joe Biden that China was prepared to take decisive measures" if Taiwan made any moves towards independence that crossed Beijing's red lines.

Was the rest of the conversation tense? No: in fact, the overall cordial tone of the video conference exchange, with Xi referring to Biden at one point as my old friend", gave an immediate boost to financial markets in Asia.

What did Biden want to achieve? One of his aims in the summit was to establish regular dialogue between US and Chinese officials on a range of issues. It was unclear how far the two leaders had gone to achieve that, however.

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