US Secretary of State Antony Blinken hosts foreign ministers for first meeting since deadly border clashes last week.

Each time Biden has raised the possibility of US troops fighting to protect Taiwan, China has reacted furiously.

The US president also dismissed the notion that the Chinese-Russian alliance effectively means the United States is fighting a new kind of Cold War.

Biden made the trip to highlight recent legislation passed at his behest setting aside $52 billion to boost US semiconductor production.

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No one has officially claimed responsibility and it remained unclear Friday exactly what caused the explosions at the base, a major staging point for Russia's war against Ukraine.

"Salman will likely lose one eye; the nerves in his arm were severed; and his liver was stabbed and damaged," said agent Andrew Wylie

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"The temperature's pretty high," but tensions "can come down very easily by just having the Chinese stop these very aggressive military drills"

"We will not allow them to isolate Taiwan," she said, listing lower-level US visits to the island and reiterating that her trip was "not about changing the status quo" in the region.

Russia's foreign ministry, in a statement on the call, said that relations between the two nations "are in strong need of normalization."

Today's phone meeting between Joe Biden and Xi Jinping has become talk of the world as it might be there most tense exchange until now.