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Edward Helmore

Joe Biden calls for stable US-China relationship during south-east Asia tour

Joe Biden with a microphone in front of the US and the Vietnamese flags.
Joe Biden on the first day of his visit to Vietnam to deepen cooperation between the two nations. Photograph: Nhac Nguyen/AFP/Getty Images

Joe Biden’s national security tour of south-east Asia reached Hanoi, Vietnam, on Sunday, where the president called for stability in the US-China relationship against an increasingly complex diplomatic picture in the region for his country.

“I don’t want to contain China,” Biden said. “I just want to make sure that we have a relationship with China that is on the up and up, squared away, everybody knows what it’s all about.”

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