Joe Biden calls for stable US-China relationship during south-east Asia tour

The US president's remarks came after after meeting in Vietnam with Communist party official to secure global supply chain

Joe Biden's national security tour of south-east Asia reached Hanoi, Vietnam, on Sunday, where the president called for stability in the US-China relationship against an increasingly complex diplomatic picture in the region for his country.

I don't want to contain China," Biden said. I just want to make sure that we have a relationship with China that is on the up and up, squared away, everybody knows what it's all about."