WASHINGTON—President Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping conferred Friday amid growing hostility over Ukraine and what the U.S. says is Beijing’s failure to join other leading nations in denouncing Russia’s military assault on Ukraine.
During a nearly two-hour-long videoconference, Mr. Xi sought to present China as a peacemaker. “The Ukraine crisis is something we don’t want to see,” he told Mr. Biden, according to China’s official Xinhua News Agency. “Conflict and confrontation are not in the interests of anyone.”
