
EIJING — Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Chinese leaders emphasized on Thursday the need for economic cooperation at a time when the global economy is struggling with new crises. But a fistfight at an American-versus-Chinese good-will basketball game at night cast a shadow on the day’s diplomacy.
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The American delegation had arrived anxious that the Chinese might express concerns over the country’s large holdings of American debt. But United States officials present at Mr. Biden’s meetings said Chinese leaders told him they still had confidence in the United States’ financial system and did not show worry over their country’s investments. Chinese officials did not provide a briefing for foreign reporters, so it was not immediately possible to get their version of what was said.
Recent commentaries from official Chinese news organizations had expressed alarm about China’s holdings after the debt ceiling crisis in the United States.
Mr. Biden, meanwhile, returned to an old theme: that China needed to build a more sustainable economy that would put greater weight on domestic consumption rather than exports. He emphasized that such a rebalancing was a way that China could help spur growth in the United States and other countries and address structural flaws in its own economy.
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