After a rare visit from a U.S. security adviser, Biden and Xi will hold a conversation.

• In the near future, Joe Biden, the President of the United States, and Xi Jinping, the President of China, will have a phone conversation.
• During Jake Sullivan's visit to Beijing this week to meet with Wang Yi, an announcement was made.
• The last official visit to China by a U.S. president's national security adviser was in 2016, when Susan Rice went to Beijing under the Obama administration.

In the near future, Joe Biden and Xi Jinping will have a phone conversation.

During Jake Sullivan's visit to Beijing this week to meet with Wang Yi, an announcement was made.

Both sides announced that their military leaders would soon have a call.

The White House announced that John Podesta, senior advisor to the president for international climate policy, will soon travel to China to discuss plans for the second round of U.S.-China talks on artificial intelligence.

The two nations kept their stance on tech restrictions, Taiwan, the South China Sea, and Ukraine during Sullivan's trip.

Biden will not seek reelection in November, allowing his vice president, Kamala Harris, to take over the nomination. The White House announced plans for a "leader-level call" without naming the presidents.

The Chinese side's statement employed its typical language of "two heads of state," stating that both sides were discussing "a new round of interaction," according to a CNBC translation of the Chinese.

In early April, Biden and Xi had a nearly two-hour phone call, following their meeting in November 2023 at a summit in Woodside, California.

The communication between the world's two largest economies has been challenging in recent years due to increased tensions and Covid-19 restrictions.

Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan in August 2022 and a "balloon incident" in February 2023 worsened their relationship, halting some scheduled negotiations.

First U.S. security adviser visit since 2016

Despite having multiple meetings with Wang in recent years, this is Sullivan's first trip to China as national security adviser. He arrived in Beijing on Tuesday and completed two days of meetings with Wang on Wednesday, and is scheduled to depart on Thursday.

The last official visit to China by a U.S. president's national security adviser was in 2016, when Susan Rice went to Beijing under the Obama administration.

Despite the uncertainty of the November presidential election results, there is consensus among both U.S. political parties to be tough on Beijing.

In May, at a Council on Foreign Relations event, Phil Gordon, Harris' current national security adviser, stated that the "China challenge" is more significant than Taiwan and requires preventing Beijing from acquiring advanced technology, intelligence, and military capabilities that could threaten the US.