Biden, Xi clash on Taiwan but find common ground on Ukraine

US President Joe Biden, right, and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands before a meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit meeting, on November 14, 2022, in Bali, Indonesia. (AP)

• Xi and Biden both sought to lower the temperature as they met for more than two hours in Bali
• Presidents both said they wanted to prevent high tensions from spilling over into conflict

NUSA DUA, Indonesia: Presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping clashed Monday over Taiwan but found areas of common ground during the powers' first in-person summit in three years, including a joint warning against Russia using nuclear weapons in Ukraine.
Xi and Biden both sought to lower the temperature as they met for more than two hours on the resort island of Bali, with the presidents both saying they wanted to prevent high tensions from spilling over into conflict.
In a sign of headway on working together, the White House announced that Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit China -- the most senior US visitor since 2018.
Biden and Xi, who is on only his second overseas trip since the pandemic, shook hands and smiled before the two countries' flags at a hotel in Bali, where the Group of 20 opens a summit on Tuesday.
Biden, sitting across from Xi at facing tables, said that Beijing and Washington "share responsibility" to show the world that they can "manage our differences, prevent competition from becoming conflict".
Xi, China's most powerful leader in decades who is fresh from securing a norm-breaking third term, told Biden that the world has "come to a crossroads".
"The world expects that China and the United States will properly handle the relationship," Xi told him.
Xi later told him that China and the United States "share more, not less" in common interests, according to a Chinese statement.