US President Joe Biden addresses a joint session of Congress, flanked by Vice-President Kamala Harris and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Photo: AP
Biden casts US-China relations as a battle for the century
- US president tells joint sessions of Congress Xi Jinping is ‘deadly earnest’ about China becoming the most consequential nation in the world
- Relationship will be a litmus test of the merits of democracy versus autocracy and a competition to develop the technologies of the future, he says
US President Joe Biden addresses a joint session of Congress, flanked by Vice-President Kamala Harris and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Photo: AP